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This paper presents a performance study of the state‐of‐the‐art caching proxy called Squid. We instrumented Squid to measure per request network and disk activities and conducted a series of experiments on large Web caches. We have discovered many interesting and consistent patterns across a wide variety of environments. Our data and analysis are essential for understanding, modeling, benchmarking, and tuning performance of a proxy server.
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Rousskov, A., Soloviev, V. A performance study of the Squid proxy on HTTP/1.0. World Wide Web 2, 47–67 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019240520661
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