The Foxy Web Cache is a high-performance web proxy prototype that we used to measure our storage I/O algorithms for web proxies.For the details of storage I/O algorithms and experimental results please check out my publications.
Foxy has been implemented and tested on Sun Solaris (2.7-2.8) but should run unmodified on other Unices like Linux, since it uses standard Unix library calls.
In our publications Foxy outperforms the Squid web cache by a factor of 4 in throughput (www requests served per second), while maintaining the same low response time as Squid. Measurements were performed with the Web Polygraph benchmark.
Source code for the Foxy Web Cache v0.70 (GPLv2 Licenced)
Code 100% written by Michail Flouris.
For project home page and publications click here.