Setting up a simple test

I have a client interested in setting up a Squid proxy with around 100
users going through the proxy. My Squid version is 2.6.STABLE3 running
on on SuSE Linux kernel 2.6.5-7.244-default. This proxy server has an
Intel Xeon 2.8GHz processor and 1GB Ram. I have configured Squid for
'cache_dir aufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 1000 16 256' and 'cache_mem
128 MB' and I am using proxy authentication 'auth_param basic program
/usr/local/squid/libexec/pam_auth'. I also have DansGuardian version
2.8.0 for content filtering. I have installed WebPolygraph 3.0.5 to a
FreeBSD 6.2 release running on a Intel PIV 2.8GHz with 1GB Ram Dell
workstation. I have successfully tested SimplePG (with 100 robots),
Test_Polypxy (with 10 robots) and PolyMix1 (with 10 robots).

I'd like to create a realistic test of 100 users having Squid
authenticating users to LDAP and accessing my DNS servers while caching
content when possible while users randomly access random URLs. Can I do
this with one workstation and 100 robots? What workload would you
suggest I modify? Is there any documentation on creating a customized
workload outside of the Web Polygraph.org site?

Thanks,

Bart
Received on Tue Feb 27 2007 - 11:57:37 MST