Linda W wrote:
With no processes attaching to squid -- no activity -- no open network connections -- only squid listening for connections -- why is squid walking up doing a busy-wait so often? It's the most active process -- even when it is supposedly doing nothing? I'm running it on suse10.3, squid-beta-3.0-351 so maybe it is something that has been fixed? Wakeups-from-idle per second : 102.2 interval: 10.0s Top causes for wakeups: 58.4% ( 62.6) squid : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
Ah wakeups. Looks like one of the inefficient listening methods is being used. Squid _polls_ its listening sockets in one of several ways. Some of these can cause lot of wakeups.
Amos -- Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE4 or 3.0.STABLE9
