On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think you are getting close to the top of the range we have benchmarked > squid-3 at. Do you have any performance graphs we could use? > Thank you for your advice very much! > #1 - Check the number of file descriptors your cache is allowed and using. > You may need to rebuild with a larger set. The number of file descriptors for a process is 32768. > > #2 - maybe run a second squid on that machine. Squid only takes up one CPU > (helpers another maybe). I think it is not CPU bound because I use aufs and kqueue, and the total CPU usage reported by top < 15%. I also found the disk is not so busy (iostat ~ 40%) > > Nothing obvious in the config. Just a few minor tweaks FYI: >