Re: New to this: What use to have more than one squid on same machine

Clifton Royston wrote:

> Hmmm. I'm not sure if this is actually true - do multiple squids on the
> same box really perform better than one instance of squid? Anybody
> have any results on that?

If you have a beefy box and are not using async-io then Squid may be
bound by disk I/O, and then running multiple Squids using different
cache drives may acheive a higher thruput than a single Squid due to the
increased disk I/O parallelism.

> However, the hit rate would be better if one instance has all the cache
> and the other is fetching results through it.

True.

But sometimes forwarding capacity is more important than the best
possible hit ratio.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker