Re: [squid-users] SQUID 2.4STABLE 6 and 7 strange CPU usage

I would disagree. There is no fundamental difference in the core of a
Celeron that makes it unsuitable for high demand work. A Celeron at
1GHz today is a far more powerful CPU than the PII 300MHz CPUs that were
in use just three years ago in high end Squid machines.

A Celeron is a fine choice for many server situations, as is the AMD
Duron. A smaller on-die cache (the only major difference between the
Celeron/Duron and the PIII|P4/Athlon) makes very little difference to
the performance of Squid, as Squid isn't really the type of workload
that benefits from a large on-die cache. I've benchmarked a 1GHz PIII
against a 1GHz Celeron, and the performance difference was about 5%.

Mark Tinka wrote:
> i think it's because u are running a Celeron.. in my
> experience, with using Celerons on UNIX and Windows, i
> have discovered that the processor does not operate
> cleanly.. once in a while, it will shoot up to maximum
> use, even when nothing is happenning..
>
> Celeron is really not intended for hard work like what
> squid is doing.. it's not that reliable.. it's mainly
> for single-user, single-task, operating systems, such
> as Windows 9x/ME.. to use it on UNIX or Windows 2000
> would not yield the kind of performance u're looking
> for...
>
> going for a Pentium or Athlon would give u better
> performance, at even a lower cycle rate than the
> Celeron...
>
> good luck..
>
> AKNIT

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