Re: [squid-users] Squid - Dual CPUs

Well.. Disk I/O uses quite a bit of CPU, and so does kernel-level
networking code. But still Squid CPU usage will be the main bottleneck..

Disk I/O can be moved out of the Squid main process by the use of
async-io or diskd.

I have not benchmarked how much might be gained from a second CPU so I
don't have a definite answer on how much the OS can move to the second
CPU.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Adam Lang wrote:
> 
> I guess it is sort of a moot point because most of squid is Hard Disk
> intensive anyway, correct?  Even if it could use both CPUs, it still would
> be a negligible performance increase?
> 
> Adam Lang
> Systems Engineer
> Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@hem.passagen.se>
> To: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
> Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 12:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid - Dual CPUs
> 
> > Adam Lang wrote:
> > >
> > > So it isn't even something that the OS can take advantage of for Squid?
> >
> > The OS should be able to use some of the second CPU for I/O and
> > networking. However, Squid will still be quite limited by the speed of
> > the first CPU..
> >
> > --
> > Henrik Nordstrom
> > Squid hacker