hi , in my opinion 100 users is not soo much http requests and smp is not the right solution >>>>>>>>>>>> you can tune squid parameters and optimize squid , u dint need SMP . smp is limited to object size 32 k and in my opinion it will be less hits than squid without smp. SMP can help u when u have multicore machine and u have a huge http requests and wantto balance the http requesst among ur cores . and agian , here , im asking Amos about SMP>>>>> can we after using SMP to get more BW saving ?? assume we fixed all other parameters of squid and want to make comparision . assume i have server without smp and save about 40 MBps can i reach this value after SMP ??? with my best regards ----- Dr.x -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/how-to-use-multi-instances-SMP-in-squid-tp4663724p4663780.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.