High Performance Web Caching With Squid - Persian Networks

This box was tested before and after tuning using the Polygraph web cache benchmarking suite and performance climbed from about 50 reqs/second to over 100 reqs/second. A very large difference for no extra hardware expense. ..... You need to get a handle on what your equipment is capable of and identify things that are out of whack. It doesn't take much practice to be able to do this, so don't worry too much! CPU usage. Squid is a CPU-intensive application (since, ...