RE: [squid-users] hyperthreading?

Hmm. This could be useful on a cache that makes use of redirectors and has
complicated and/or interpreted redirector processes and high traffic, no?
This is assuming you bind the Squid's processor affinity to a single
physcial/logical CPU (i.e. with Linux schedutils).

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:34 AM
To: Wei Keong
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] hyperthreading?

Estimate: Not much, if any.

Squid cannot utilize SMP very good, and enabling SMP support (required
for HT) in the OS significantly slows down most things used by Squid...

Maybe a gain can be seen if you compile Squid with the Intel ICC
compiler with support for automatic threading, but only if you are in
the situation that your Squid is seriously CPU bound.

Regards
Henrik

Wei Keong wrote:
>
> Was reading up on this and wondering if hyperthreading will improve squid
> performance... anyone tried this, any input?
>
> http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20021202/index.html
>
> Thanks.
> Wei Keong
Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 14:40:11 MST