Thats specious, you really have to know what you're proxying, and squid and varnish supposedly get much less throughput. (Google around http://deserialized.com/

Thats specious, you really have to know what you're proxying, and squid and varnish supposedly get much less throughput. (Google around http://deserialized.com/reverse-proxy-performance-varnish-vs-squid-part-1/ http://deserialized.com/reverse-proxy-performance-varnish-vs... ) "Moving bits" in memory is not a measure of anything.