Re: [squid-users] Squid with dual processor ..

Hi All,

Good day. Just wondering if anyone has tried running Squid 2.4/2.5 on
hyperthreaded Intel P4 CPU? Could this be the interim solution?

Rgds,
Wei Keong

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Sunday 06 July 2003 19.53, Schelstraete Bart wrote:
> > That's maybe a good suggestion for Squid v3.0..........
> > multitasking = work with multiple CPU's
> > That should be something nice, as Squid is almost always used on
> > servers.......and most server have multiple CPU's.
>
> Squid-3.0 will not improve in this aspect. The hope is that Squid-3.0
> will be somewhat faster than Squid-2.5, but it sill will use a single
> CPU thread only.
>
> There is much thought going on in how to make Squid SMP scaleable, but
> so far all ideas requires rather far going changes to the internals
> of Squid, more than what is practically possible in one development
> cycle.
>
> The Squid internal design is gradually being refined and cleaned up
> however, and it is not unlikely there at some time will be a SMP
> capable Squid available, it won't be Squid-3.0 however, and quite
> likely not Squid-3.1 either (at least not fully).
>
> The Squid-3.0 release is selected as a middleground, with a whole lot
> internal redesign most users won't notice but preparing for the
> development of more visible news in later releases, combined with a
> reasonable amount of noticeable new features much asked for.
>
> Notice: Very little of the founded work in Squid-3.0 is performance
> related. Allmost all is functionality related. The performance
> related work and research has been done almost entirely by individual
> developers own interest alone.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
Received on Sun Jul 06 2003 - 20:23:15 MDT