On Wednesday 16 November 2005 14:49, James Vanns wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:41 +0000, James Vanns wrote: > > <snip> > > > > With approximately 3000 open file descriptors (configured at compile > > > > time and set at runtime with ulimit -HSn 16384) and an equivalent no. of > > > > client/server TCP connections we see a constant CPU usage of ~95-100%. > > > > Is this normal!? The hardware is as follows: > > > > > > I don't think so. Try strace and ltrace on running squid. > > > > Yeah I have actually run squid through strace and the only alarming > > thing is the huge amount of bind() calls on 0.0.0.0 and port htons (0). > > And by huge amount I mean practically every lookup (I guess somehow this > > is related to the internal DNS lookups). > > Sorry I should have said 'squid's internal resolver' to avoid > confusion ;) Parts of my squid.conf which may be, or may be not relevant: # DONT! This incurs reverse DNS lookup if you supplied numeric IP # (and 5 min (!!!) timeout if that IP does not have reverse DNS set up) #acl ads dstdomain 81.222.128.3 www.linkexchange.ru ad0.bigmir.net bbn.img.com.ua ... # This option is only available if Squid is rebuilt with the # --disable-internal-dns option # Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process. # cache_dns_program /usr/app/squid-2.5.STABLE10/libexec/dnsserver # dns_children 5 # dns_retransmit_interval 5 seconds # dns_timeout 5 minutes # dns_defnames off # dns_nameservers # none ... # negative_ttl 5 minutes # positive_dns_ttl 6 hours # negative_dns_ttl 5 minutes ... # TAG: incoming_icp_average # TAG: incoming_http_average # TAG: incoming_dns_average # TAG: min_icp_poll_cnt # TAG: min_dns_poll_cnt # TAG: min_http_poll_cnt # Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this. # Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless # you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first! # incoming_icp_average 6 # incoming_http_average 4 # incoming_dns_average 4 # min_icp_poll_cnt 8 # min_dns_poll_cnt 8 # min_http_poll_cnt 8 As you can see, I left everything commented out. Is your squid.conf different? Also, I did "lsof -nP | grep squid | $PAGER" I see only one UDP socket: squid 1255 squid 4u IPv4 4121 UDP *:32795 and then strace -p `pidof squid` 2>&1 | grep -v ^poll shows that my squid does not open/close/bind/whatever it. Squid mostly does: sendto(4, "9\335\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\4auto\6search\3msn\3com"..., 37, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, 16) = 37 recvfrom(4, "9\335\201\200\0\1\0\6\0\0\0\0\4auto\6search\3msn\3com"..., 16384, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, [16]) = 196 recvfrom(4, 0x80cbe00, 16384, 0, 0xbfffc9d8, 0xbfffc9d4) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) sendto(4, "!j\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\ncaricatura\2ru\0\0\1\0\1", 31, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, 16) = 31 recvfrom(4, "!j\201\200\0\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\ncaricatura\2ru\0\0\1\0\1\300"..., 16384, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, [16]) = 47 recvfrom(4, 0x80cbe00, 16384, 0, 0xbfffc9d8, 0xbfffc9d4) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) sendto(4, "\27\271\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\3img\2go\4mail\2ru\0\0\1\0"..., 32, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, 16) = 32 recvfrom(4, "\27\271\201\200\0\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\3img\2go\4mail\2ru\0\0"..., 16384, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, [16]) = 48 recvfrom(4, 0x80cbe00, 16384, 0, 0xbfffc9d8, 0xbfffc9d4) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) sendto(4, "\r\321\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\6rating\3ukr\3net\0\0\1\0\1"..., 32, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, 16) = 32 recvfrom(4, "\r\321\201\200\0\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\6rating\3ukr\3net\0\0\1"..., 16384, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, [16]) = 48 recvfrom(4, 0x80cbe00, 16384, 0, 0xbfffc9d8, 0xbfffc9d4) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) sendto(4, "I5\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\3www\6pravda\2ru\0\0\1\0\1", 31, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, 16) = 31 recvfrom(4, "I5\201\200\0\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\3www\6pravda\2ru\0\0\1\0\1\300"..., 16384, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, [16]) = 47 recvfrom(4, 0x80cbe00, 16384, 0, 0xbfffc9d8, 0xbfffc9d4) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) sendto(4, "\347s\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\3www\fhypertracker\3co"..., 38, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, 16) = 38 recvfrom(4, "\347s\201\200\0\1\0\2\0\0\0\0\3www\fhypertracker\3co"..., 16384, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.16.22.5")}, [16]) = 68 recvfrom(4, 0x80cbe00, 16384, 0, 0xbfffc9d8, 0xbfffc9d4) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) -- vda