Hey Ahmad,
It’s possible to use another proxy software.
If you do not need any specific functions that squid has you can easily run a forward proxy that will probably
be simpler to operate, unless… you have something specific that only squid gives.
All The Bests,
Eliezer
From: squid-users <squid-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Ahmad Alzaeem
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 19:19
To: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Squid 3-5 CPU optimization and best practise .
Hello Alex ,
Thanks for your reply ,
I thought as long as squid is only as forward proxy only and no https , we may disable some built in squid features that is not required in my purpose for getting lower CPU consumption such as use minimum squid functions .
We don’t have any bottleneck in squid .
The only issue is when there is a very high traffic that will use the CPU at higher scale .
So my only goal is decrease squid CPU consumption as much as I can .
So I build local dns server to fasten the lookup , but still don’t see any rich topics online for my goal .
Thanks
On 3/31/22 11:04, Ahmad Alzaeem wrote:
> My main question is , is there any major changes in squid 5 that make it
> faster than squid 3 or squid 4 in terms of low CPU usage?
I do not recall any _major_ changes in that area, but the http_port
worker-queues option may be of interest to those looking for performance
optimizations.
> Is there any best practice I can use to lower the cpu usage or response
> time ?
YMMV, but I would start by using (the right number of) SMP workers with
cpu_affinity_map and worker-queues. More on that at
https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SmpScale#How_to_configure_SMP_Squid_for_top_performance.3F
Beyond that, one would have to analyze your Squid performance to find
out performance bottleneck(s) and then try to eliminate them or reduce
their impact.
> Like Deny caching on the HDD or server_persistent_connections off
> similar directives
Disabling persistent connections will make things _worse_ in many cases
but YMMV. Whether cache_dirs (and even shared memory cache) slow down or
speed up an average response depends on your environment -- measure and
adjust/remove accordingly.
HTH,
Alex.
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