Things get better with a static front page. While edna still seems sluggish(not sure why), the squid cache, now able to cache the front page, is positively zippy.

karl:~# ab -n 100 -c 20 http://nyc.indymedia.org/index.html
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3d <$Revision: 1.1 $> apache-1.3
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking nyc.indymedia.org (be patient).....done
Server Software:        Apache/1.3.26
Server Hostname:        nyc.indymedia.org
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /index.html
Document Length:        56702 bytes

Concurrency Level:      20
Time taken for tests:   8.835 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Broken pipe errors:     0
Total transferred:      6140000 bytes
HTML transferred:       6099644 bytes
Requests per second:    11.32 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       1767.00 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       88.35 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          694.96 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connnection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       56   168  103.5    136   411
Processing:   406  1406  333.7   1378  2107
Waiting:      340  1405  333.8   1378  2107
Total:        406  1574  314.3   1591  2173

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%   1591
  66%   1670
  75%   1729
  80%   1758
  90%   1864
  95%   2038
  98%   2148
  99%   2152
 100%   2173 (last request)
karl:~# http://209.133.53.10/
su: http://209.133.53.10/: No such file or directory

AND HERE IS THE SQUID IN ACTION

karl:~# ab -n 100 -c 20 http://209.133.53.10/
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3d <$Revision: 1.1 $> apache-1.3
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 209.133.53.10 (be patient).....done
Server Software:        Apache/1.3.26
Server Hostname:        209.133.53.10
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        56702 bytes

Concurrency Level:      20
Time taken for tests:   3.070 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Broken pipe errors:     0
Total transferred:      6251268 bytes
HTML transferred:       6205752 bytes
Requests per second:    32.57 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       614.00 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       30.70 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          2036.24 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connnection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       22    26    4.3     24    38
Processing:   177   551  525.9    296  2746
Waiting:      154   550  526.0    296  2746
Total:        177   577  528.1    318  2778

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    318
  66%    507
  75%    819
  80%    875
  90%   1509
  95%   1807
  98%   1969
  99%   2245
 100%   2778 (last request)
karl:~#

-- JohnDudaAccount - 16 Aug 2004