From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 20 09:42:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA29441 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 09:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scooter.quickweb.com (scooter.quickweb.com [199.212.134.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29352 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 09:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by scooter.quickweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA08165; Mon, 20 May 1996 12:46:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 12:46:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape Proxy Server on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <31A07DB6.3649D859@fa.tdktca.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 20 May 1996, Alex Nash wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > A derivative of Harvest is also available: > > > > > > http://www.nlanr.net/Squid/ > > > > Funny - someone just submitted a squid port. Guess we'll have to > > bring it in now. :-) > > :) Harvest is also available as a package in -current. > > Alex > I would be nice to see Squid packaged too! It's basically the continuation of the Harvest work (the non-commerical split..) and it works quite nicely! We have it setup in a hierarchical system, with a total of about 2 Gigs of cache. Works very well. So far it seems to be about 45% effective on cache hits. I also run the Netscape Proxy server on a 2.1R machine (v1.12 of NS) with no problems. A real no brainer to setup, and the performance seems very good. I'm not sure if the next version of the proxy is out for the BSD platform yet, but I heard it will be BSDI 2.x . Anyone do any testing on which proxy is better (perfomance and hit percentage wise)? The NS proxy we use caches about a Gig, with about 150 modem users hitting it. It usually avaerages 30% cache hit successes - which seems pretty decent for a single cache. I haven't tested, but the performance _Seems_ better than Squid... the two have very different forking properties.. Comments welcome! -Mark :%t$sig -- Oops, thought I was in vi.. ------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | C-Soft www.quickweb.com | -------------------------------------------