Re: Is squid unable to handle the load?

On Tue, 26 May 1998, Mark Dabrowski wrote:

> Maybe someone can help us with this one...
>
> We're an ISP. For few months now were are trying to configure our Squid to
> cache transparently traffic from our terminal servers in order to improve
> web access of our clients. Everything is configured and works properly,
> however Squid machine is unable to handle the load and slows-down after
> running for few hours with terminal server traffic redirected into proxy
> machine. What we have to do is remove the redirection, restart squid and
> then it will work fine for a while, and slow-down again.
>
> Here is more detailed information:
>
> Squid machine:
> Pentium II 300Mhz, 384MB Ram, 24GB UltraWide SCSII HDD
> BSDI 3.1, Squid 1.1.21, I, IPFilter 3.2.7
>
> Cisco 3600 router
>
> The way we test is, we are redirecting traffic on port 80 from only 4
> terminal servers (PM3's) - one full class C - via Cisco 3600 to Squid
> machine. Then on Squid, IPFilter redirects port 80 to 8080 which is Squid's
> port.
>
> With this configuration maximum of 192 clients can request web pages
> through squid at the same time. As I said before, this works excellent at
> the beginning with a high Hit ratio, and then after few hours starts
> slowing down and finally after 8-10 hours it takes forever to request
> anything via squid.
>
> At the time this happens vmstat reports 110MB ram available. We are using
> GNU Malloc.

I am not sure what this could be. We have a Cisco 3640 we redirect to our
Squid box which is a PII 233mhz, 512MB, 8GB machine. The machine never
goes above .2 load average. We have 288 simultaneous sessions on the
squid cache, and the router and squid loads are very small.

>
> Does anybody have any ideas????????
>
> Mark Dabrowski
> mark@ica.net
>
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