Test environments, software/hardware spec, system parameters, config files can be found here: nuster vs nginx vs varnish

    The result show that nuster is almost 4 times faster than squid.

    Squid config:

    1. LimitNOFILE=1000000
    3. ### squid.conf
    5. workers 12
    6. http_port 10.0.10.13:8089 accel defaultsite=10.0.10.13
    7. cache_peer     10.0.10.10 parent 8000 0 no-query originserver name=hp
    8. cache_mem 500 MB
    9. access_log none
    10. cache_log /dev/null
    11. logfile_rotate 0
    13. via off
    14. reply_header_access X-Cache deny all
    15. reply_header_access X-Cache-Lookup deny all
    16. reply_header_access Age deny all

    squid 3.5.20 result

    1. wrk -c 1000 -d 30 -t 100 http://10.0.10.13:8089/helloworld
    2. Running 30s test @ http://10.0.10.13:8089/helloworld
    3.   100 threads and 1000 connections
    4.   Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    5.     Latency    12.87ms    6.33ms 300.73ms   99.42%
    6.     Req/Sec   796.69     49.06     2.00k    97.15%
    7.   2380125 requests in 30.10s, 578.82MB read
    8. Requests/sec:  79074.30
    9. Transfer/sec:     19.23MB

    squid 4.0.23 result

    1. wrk -c 1000 -d 30 -t 100 http://10.0.10.13:8088/helloworld
    2. Running 30s test @ http://10.0.10.13:8088/helloworld
    3.   100 threads and 1000 connections
    4.   Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    5.     Latency    12.65ms    5.29ms 264.42ms   99.10%
    6.     Req/Sec   806.15     54.14     2.18k    97.98%
    7.   2408271 requests in 30.10s, 585.66MB read
    8. Requests/sec:  80010.56
    9. Transfer/sec:     19.46MB

    nuster 1.7.9.4 result

    1. wrk --timeout 300 -c 1000 -d 30 -t 100 http://10.0.0.13:8081/helloworld
    2. Running 30s test @ http://10.0.10.13:8081/helloworld
    3.   100 threads and 1000 connections
    4.   Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    5.     Latency     2.85ms    1.93ms 205.00ms   99.32%
    6.     Req/Sec     3.58k   222.52     5.61k    74.26%
    7.   10729455 requests in 30.10s, 2.55GB read
    8. Requests/sec: 356469.04
    9. Transfer/sec:     86.69MB