On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> one Squid instance is running on the cache server , >> squid .conf : >> cache_mem 8192 MB >> maximum_object_size_in_memory 2048 KB > > This may be the culpit. Squid-2 is very very poor at handling large > objects in memory, wasting exponential amount of CPU the larger the > object is.. This is fixed in Squid-3. Could you please provide a link to that bug? -neil