> Hello, > > i have got a Squid version 3.1.8 running on a CentOS 5.x. > Since it works for url and content filtering, in conjunction with > Dansguardian in front, for some hunderd of users, the load average of that > machine is sometimes very high (also 5.0 or 8.0...). > The biggest process is squid, both on CPUs and Memory; i noticed, by > entering top -s and press "1" - that often the system is in wait, perhaps > it waits for the disk IO subsystem to write and manage Squid's cache. cat /proc/stat check for: "procs_blocked" LA is a very misunderstood metric. It doesn't exactly correspond to the load as one can imagine. Any time you are above 1, there is a problem somewhere. I have a Quad Core with 2-3 squids each running at 90% CPU load per core constantly. Yet my LA is never more than 0.60 Jenny
