Re: [squid-users] Use squid as tiny proxy

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 12:06:25 +0100

Wei Keong wrote:
>
> reducing cache_mem (256M -> 128M) and fd (8152 - 4096) doesn't improve the
> proformance much. my squid becomes very slow (ave response time = 1s, cpu
> = 100%) when req/s = 100.
>
> tried cutting down url_regex also does help much... is 100 req/s the 'max'
> load for PIII 1GHz, 2GB RAM system?

No, but you may need to retune your TCP kernel to allow such high rate
of outgoing TCP connections.

Also, if you are doing caching then proper tuning of your disk system is
needed.

A non-caching Squid on PIII 1GHz can handle ca 700 req/s.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Jan 08 2003 - 04:18:32 MST

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