How Much Bandwidth Can I Save On Squid ?

debloxie · 05-05-2007, 01:03 PM

I am currently thinking of deploying an highend squid box for an ISP on a link of 6Mbps. They are currently using a full load of 5+ Mbps and demands to know how much whether in bits/s or percentage of the 6Mbps he can save.

The squid box is going to be high end on a P4 3.0 GHz, 2G RAM, 2 Ultra-wide SCSI 36.4G disks on different SCSI cards.

If someone can give me benchmarks on their own setups, pls i wont mind coz it will help others who have this same uncertainty. The client is hoping to save @ least 1Mbps on his link.

Any thoughts is welcome

Bloxie

acid_kewpie · 05-05-2007, 01:58 PM

well you can save plenty, but it's very much dependent on how your users use the web. you should be looking at a bigger cache i expect though. you'd want to keep as much in cache for as long as possible to improve the ratio, but then with a 5mbps conneciton, i presume you aren't really serving *that* many users... any stats to work off of??

as well as caching, you should try looking at compression too. plain html can often compress u pto 50 times, and large images up to 20%, and so save a lot of bandwidth in the first place, regardless of cache sizes.

Frank Ng'andwe · 07-13-2009, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

well you can save plenty, but it's very much dependent on how your users use the web. you should be looking at a bigger cache i expect though. you'd want to keep as much in cache for as long as possible to improve the ratio, but then with a 5mbps conneciton, i presume you aren't really serving *that* many users... any stats to work off of??

as well as caching, you should try looking at compression too. plain html can often compress u pto 50 times, and large images up to 20%, and so save a lot of bandwidth in the first place, regardless of cache sizes.

Chris,

Can you shed more light on how one can setup squid/caching with good compression to get the best out of it please?

Frank

acid_kewpie · 07-13-2009, 06:32 AM

Not here. Please don't drag up dead threads. please start a new thread if you have a question of your own.