On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 22:50, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm running a squid-proxy (squid 2.5.stable7-1) in reverse-proxy mode in > front of two webservers. Squid does equal loadbalancing across the > servers, and answers requests for static pages/images/... itself. > Because of the site-content squid is able to service about 80%-85% of > the requests itself. Statistics report about 500 requests/second hitting > squid, with an output to the internet of about 20mbit/s during peak-times. [...] > Does somebody have an idea how I could "debug" the cpu-utilisation of > "system", and how to lower it? Friends told me to watch out for possible > buffers that could reduce the number of transfers from > kernel-to-userspace or so - but I didn't find much. The figures do not really look too bad. As for debugging, you could try using opofile (it should be enabled in Fedora). Kinkie