lawrence wang wrote:
On 3/21/06, Chris Robertson <crobertson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
lawrence wang wrote:
Is there a way to have Squid 2.5STABLE12 take advantage of multiple
CPU's? Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions.
Run multiple instances...
http://squidwiki.kinkie.it/MultipleInstances
Determining why your Squid is CPU limited (assuming that is the reason
for this question) is quite often a better course of action.
Chris
it seems like Squid can't help but be CPU limited when it's serving
very small objects (<1KB) from memory, which is my situation.
If on linux, and running a 2.6 kernel, you might look into the epoll
patch. It's unsupported "run-at-your-own-risk", but it makes a great
difference when a large number of inodes are in use. Anecdotal
"evidence" shows it stable for a number of people (myself included).
Since you have a multi CPU machine, you can use the "run multiple
instances of Squid" instructions to run an epoll-enhanced version
side-by-side with the stable-but-CPU-intensive version and see if it (a)
helps and (b) is stable for you..
The message at
http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200602/0609.html
contains an example step-by-step listing of the process to employ the patch.
Chris.
