Web cache server performance benchmark: nuster vs squid

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:

LimitNOFILE=1000000

### squid.conf

workers 12
http_port 10.0.10.13:8089 accel defaultsite=10.0.10.13
cache_peer     10.0.10.10 parent 8000 0 no-query originserver name=hp
cache_mem 500 MB
access_log none
cache_log /dev/null
logfile_rotate 0

via off
reply_header_access X-Cache deny all
reply_header_access X-Cache-Lookup deny all
reply_header_access Age deny all

squid 3.5.20 result

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

squid 4.0.23 result

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

nuster 1.7.9.4 result

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