I believe that the squid manager info page should give some clue about the number of concurrent requests. If it's above some number(300-400 and above) per second then removing the cache_dir from the server for a windows of a day will answer if it's a DISK IO bottle neck or something else. All The Bests, Eliezer ---- Eliezer Croitoru Linux System Administrator Mobile: +972-5-28704261 Email: eliezer@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: squid-users [mailto:squid-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vitaly Lavrov Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 10:56 PM To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: High utilization of CPU squid-3.5.23,squid-3.5.24 Periodically squid begins to linearly increase the use of the CPU. Sometimes this process reaches 100%. At random moment of time the CPU usage is reduced to 5-15%, and in the presence of client requests can again start linearly increasing use of CPU. In the protocols are no error messages. CPU consumption does not correlate with the number of requests and traffic. The increase CPU consumption from 0 to 60% occurs in about 4-5 hours, and to 100% for 6-8 hours. A typical graph of CPU usage can be viewed on http://devel.aanet.ru/tmp/squid-cpu-x.png With the "perf record -p` pgrep -f squid-1` - sleep 30" I have received the following information: At 100% CPU load most of the time took 3 calls 49.15% squid squid [.] MemObject :: dump 25.11% squid squid [.] Mem_hdr :: freeDataUpto 20.03% squid squid [.] Mem_hdr :: copy When loading CPU 30-60% most of the time took 3 calls 37.26% squid squid [.] Mem_node :: dataRange 22.61% squid squid [.] Mem_hdr :: NodeCompare 17.31% squid squid [.] Mem_hdr :: freeDataUpto What is it ? Is it possible to somehow fix it? System: slackware64 14.2 sslbump not used. http only. Part of config: memory_pools off memory_pools_limit 512 MB cache_mem 768 MB maximum_object_size_in_memory 64 KB cache_dir ufs /cache/sq_c1 16312 16 256 cache_dir ufs /cache/sq_c2 16312 16 256 cache_dir ufs /cache/sq_c3 16312 16 256 _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users