Amos Jeffries-2 wrote > On 3/11/2013 5:22 p.m., Dr.x wrote: >> hi , >> >> its just an updating idea , >> we have 6000 users and we have 96 G ram and 24 CPU cores and DELR720 >> hardware , >> actually i want to use smp and want to handle them by squid >> Q1-from the user experience who tried squid smp , can my hardware handle >> the >> 6000 users ???? > > No. It can handle some amount of requests/sec and traffic/sec. But > "users" is not related to proxy capacity. > > 6000 users doing 1 req/day, even the footstool under my desk can handle > that load. > 6000 users doing ~150 req/sec each concurrently, you need a monster > amount of CPU to handle that load. hi amos , regarding to the answer "no " currently , i have a squid server without smp that handle 2500 users and without slowness , with caching and ,with acl web filtering. and it only dissipating a few cores in my cpu !!!! here is a print screen of my DELR720 server which handle wt i said above : <http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/file/n4663110/584988478.png> although i made a snapshot in time not considered as rush hour , but u can indicate that only about 5 core cpus from about 24 cores is running and the others always idle !!!1 the question is why it cant ???? as we know , squid cant use all cores without smp , but in my opinion , if server without smp could handle 2500 users , it must handle at least 5000 users with smp plz clarify ! regards ----- Dr.x -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/load-tpoxy-wccp-on-multiple-interfaces-by-smp-tp4663100p4663110.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.