Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:53:43 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NetWare/BorderManager vs FreeBSD/squid Message-ID: <20000113165343.C99955@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05.10001131529560.10085-100000@earth.wnm.net>; from "Alex Charalabidis" on Thu Jan 13 15:40:17 GMT 2000 References: <Pine.BSI.4.05.10001131529560.10085-100000@earth.wnm.net>
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In the last episode (Jan 13), Alex Charalabidis said: > I've been asked (almost told) to install an as yet unspecified > version of Netware with an as yet unspecified flavour of > bordermanager to serve as a caching proxy. How does FreeBSD with > squid (or any other species of mollusc) compare to Novell's monster > creations? Depends on workload. http://bakeoff.ircache.net is an URL for a proxy-cache competition that was held early last year. Prices for the systems tested ranged from $200K to $3K, and pages/sec from 1600 to 96. See the results at http://bakeoff.ircache.net/N01/report.pdf. The small Novell/Dell box cost $13K and could do 400 requests/sec. The squid entry cost $3K and did 96 req/sec. See the appendices for details of each machine tested, and comments. > I'd like an unbiased comparison but could also use one that gave me > ammunition to shoot the project down. :) If they're one and the same, > so much the better. Software cost is NOT an issue in this case. I'm > going by the assumption that Novell is not better, just more gooey... If you're not planning on serving more than a couple hundred client machines, squid will work great. The Novell boxes handled high load much more gracefully, though, According to their web-page, the next Bakeoff is going to be from Jan 17-28, so you might want to see what happens there before deciding on a platform. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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