howto check proxy squid performance ?

['chris']

hi

howto check proxy squid performance ?
is it any stress tool to do that ?

kind regards
chris

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

The best tool in my opinion is to get test users on it. In the past with unix boxes, I made arrangement for test groups of increasingly large sizes to do stress tests for me prior to going production.

There are general system stress tools available, but they cost a lot of money and do not always accurately simulate real life use.

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[Muthukumar_5]

A cgi tool called squidmgr.cgi is coming with squid. You can put this in apache web server and get to know the squid performance.

Change cache_mgr acl access to your machine.

hth.

[xyko_1]

Hi Chris,

I think flood may help you testing your system.

http://httpd.apache.org/test/flood/

You must configure flood with a variaty of destination sites to have an heterogeneus access and simulate as near as possible a real world.

To have access running accross squid I guess you will have to configure transparent proxy.

regards,
xyko