Proxy Profiles

Ten Squid proxies participated in our study so far. For each proxy, we collected at least one day worth of logs. The proxies represent all levels of caching hierarchy starting with leaf university proxies and ending with the root proxy of NLANR international hierarchy. We are still expanding our collection with new proxies for future experiments. Here we summarize important facts about participating proxies.

Proxy setup
Proxy Country Type Machine Total Memory
MB
Total #disks Disks per controller Total storage capacity
GB
OS Date
sv USA root DEC Alphaserver 1000, 266Mhz 512 1sys+1logs+5cache 7 2+6x4 Digital UNIX V3.2D-1 (Rev. 41) October 12-20
surfnet Netherlands top level IBM RS6000 model 960 256 2 scsi + 10 SSA 2+10 4sys+2log+6cache AIX v4.2 September 30
ruu Netherlands leaf Sun Sparcstation 4 160 3 3 6 SunOS 4.1.4 1 sun4m September 22
uninett Norway top level SGI Challenger S 200Mhz MIPS R4400 256 3scsi 2+1 2x4GB+1GB IRIX 5.3 October 12-13
uit Norway leaf SGI Challenger S 150Mhz MIPS R4400 256 4scsi 2+2 3x4GB+1GB IRIX 5.3 October 12-13
mexcom Mexico intermediate Intel, Pentium 133MHz 128 3 IDE 2+1 7.5GB FreeBSD 2.2 October 27-28
adfa Australia leaf Sparc 20, 2 x 150MHz 284 1sys+1cache+2cache 1+1(10M)+2(20M) 2+2+2x2=8GB SunOS 5.5 October 29,
November 05
iif Hungary top level Sun SparcCenter 2000, 10x40 MHz 1500 54 6 131.8 Solaris 2.5 October 30-31
vein Hungary leaf PC, Intel Pentium 100 MHz 32 2 1 3.36 Linux Redhat 4.1 October 29-31
sztaki Hungary leaf Sun SparcCenter 2000, 4x40 MHz 192 19 8+4+5 17.2 Solaris 2.5 October 29-31

Squid parameters
Proxy Squid
version
Cache Memory
MB,low-high%
#disks
for cache
Cache capacity
GB,low-high%
Average object
KB
Objects/Bucket Maximum object
MB
sv 1.1.17 20 85-95 5 20.0 75-95 20 10 8
surfnet 1.1.15 24 85-90 6 6.2 90-95 20 20 4
ruu 1.1.15 32 75-90 2 5.6 90-95 20 20 8
uninett 1.1.16 32 90-90 2 6.4 90-95 20 20 4
uit 1.1.16 32 75-75 2 3.8 90-95 20 20 4
mexcom 1.1.17 48 75-90 2 1.8 90-95 20 20 4
adfa 1.1.17 32 75-90 2 5.8 85-95 15 20 4
iif 1.1.16 200 75-90 1 6.4 90-95 20 20 4
vein 1.1.16 6 75-90 2 1.2 90-95 20 50 4
sztaki 1.1.16 16 75-90 1 0.5 90-95 20 20 4
Daily Traffic
Proxy documents unique documents unique clients unique servers
sv991,08539,1449539,144
surfnet356,322223,9922912,383
ruu151,88175,5645184,548
uninett212,419145,729909,690
uit147,92765,1523783,759
mexcom53,20241,592212,541
adfa248,104120,9997987,308