On Mon, Nov 27, 2006, Manoj Rajkarnikar wrote: > request per second per cache is around 18 at peak time. traffic flow > combined to all three cache is around 5.7Mbits at peak. do you think this > cpu usage is normal for the provided load ?? Not for 18 per second; but 5.7 mbit/peak at 18req/sec is averaging ~ 300k per reply. Thats quite big. :) Did you compile with epoll() for linux or kqueue() for FreeBSD? Or, hm, can you just paste ./squid -v here? Thanks, Adrian