Fwd: [squid-users] Squid performance profiling

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ahmed Talha Khan <auny87_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid performance profiling
To: Marcus Kool <marcus.kool_at_urlfilterdb.com>
Cc: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>,
"squid-users_at_squid-cache.org" <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>

>
>
> I understand that Amos is eager to get more tests and more results about
> the latest enhancements, but as Amos himself also stated earlier, please
> use a released version of Squid for testing since the test results for
> 3.3.x or 3.4.x are interesting for admins of Squid who can consider
> upgrading,
> but test results for 3.HEAD are not useful for them since they are not
> likely
> to consider an upgrade to 3.HEAD.
>
> And if you have spare resources, it would be interesting to perform the
> same test for 3.3.5 and 3.2.11 to see the differences between releases.
> And of course, when 3.4 comes out, perform the test again...
>
> The test that you performed is very nice. I am sure that many like this.
> But I also like to see the full squid.conf. Just for transparency and
> maybe to suggest an optimisation tweak.
>

Here is my squid conf:
I am using squid as a normal forward proxy with SSL bump.

You would be able to see that I have not tampered with the
memory_pools or ssl_session much.

*****************SQUID.CONF**********************************
cache_effective_user madmin

always_direct allow all
ssl_bump allow all
sslproxy_cert_error allow all
sslproxy_flags DONT_VERIFY_PEER

# No need for caching
cache deny all

#Dont need logs for benchmarks
access_log none

# SMP scale
workers 8

# Turn off ICAP for the benchmarks
icap_enable off

#Only for benchmarks
http_access allow all

# Dynamic certificate generation
sslcrtd_program /usr/local/squid-3.3/libexec/ssl_crtd -s
/usr/local/squid-3.3/var/lib/ssl_db -M 4MB
sslcrtd_children 10

#PORTS
http_port 10.174.198.149:3128 ssl-bump generate-host-certificates=on
dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=4MB cert=/home/madmin/squid/ca.pem
key=/home/madmin/squid/ca.pem
https_port 10.174.198.149:3129 ssl-bump generate-host-certificates=on
dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=4MB cert=/home/madmin/squid/ca.pem
key=/home/madmin/squid/ca.pem

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> Thanks
> Marcus

--
Regards,
-Ahmed Talha Khan
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Regards,
-Ahmed Talha Khan