Re: Does squid eat much of CPU?

David J Woolley wrote:

> This is set by the number of file descriptors, but what I actually
> meant was that squid will use persistent connections to a server and
> only send one request at a time to that server. (It might not be
> quite that simple - it might allow a few at once.) Browsers may also
> serialsize requests to Lynx.

Squid uses as many connections to the origin server as the browser has
active connections to Squid, a little more on pipelined requests (up to
twice as many). There is no serialization of requests other than what is
done by the browser.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker