Re: [squid-users] Squid stops answering requests..

Username authentication decreases squid performance great deal in our
environment when a lot of simultaneous requests are initiated (number of
authenticator processes does not matter). You might want to test without
authentication (if you are using it). If you tried other alternatives, this
might be worth a try.

Tesla

>From: Marc Elsen <marc.elsen@imec.be>
>To: m_schmit@merkur.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de
>CC: squid-users@squid-cache.org
>Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid stops answering requests..
>Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:39:58 +0100
>
>
>
>Marc Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > hi all,
> >
> > after writing and starting a little performance test client and running
> > it against squid,
> > the poor little fish stops doing what he is supposed to do: serving the
> > requests.
> >
> > the setting is something like this:
> > the test client is written in java (using jdk1.4.0)
> > there are 20 threads (each simulating a web client)
> > each thread requests 50 times the same url
> > the os is linux suse 7.3
> > the squid configuration is the one that gets shipped (standard
>squid.conf)
> >
> > when using 20 threads with 10 iterations per thread everything is fine.
> >
> > so, for my five pens this is more or less a configuration issue. isn't
>it?
> >
> > anybody out there with a proper squid.conf file that is prepared to
> > startup squid in
> > a high performance mode? or does anybody know what conf parameters to
>screw?
> >
> > help's appreciated
> >
> > cheers marc
>
> Which version of squid are you testing ?
>
> What's in access.log during the problem test window ?
>
> More important : anything in cache.log ,during the problem phase ?
>
> There is no high performance mode squid.conf so to speak, because
> squid is always high performant...
>
> A standard squid.conf as shipped can not work I think,
> at least a listening port for requests must be specified.
>
> What about cache sizes used etc ?
>
>
>
> M.
>
>--
>
> 'Time is a consequence of Matter thus
> General Relativity is a direct consequence of QM
> (M.E. Mar 2002)

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