Re: [squid-users] how much traffic can squid handle?

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Drunkard Zhang <gongfan193_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/8/11 Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <ildefonso.camargo_at_gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Drunkard Zhang <gongfan193_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2010/8/11 Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <ildefonso.camargo_at_gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Stand H <hstandit_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --- On Mon, 8/9/10, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <ildefonso.camargo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <ildefonso.camargo_at_gmail.com>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [squid-users] how much traffic can squid handle?
>>>>>> To: "Drunkard Zhang" <gongfan193_at_gmail.com>
>>>>>> Cc: "Stand H" <hstandit_at_yahoo.com>, squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
>>>>>> Date: Monday, August 9, 2010, 6:26 PM
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Drunkard Zhang <gongfan193_at_gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > BTW, may bonding of multiple NICs helps on too many
>>>>>> interrupts.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or maybe just a good NIC, or a GOOD NIC + bonding :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you recommend a good NIC?
>>>>
>>>> Most Intel have behaved really well with me.  As for Broadcom: bad
>>>> luck, I had to disable most of the "hardware assistance", and thus:
>>>> add more load to the server, I'm currently on a "avoid Broadcom"
>>>> policy, but that could change in the future (I'll try them again
>>>> sometime).
>>>>
>>> I got bottle on forcedeth shipped with nVidia MCP55 chipset, not got
>>> problem on Intel e1000e yet, but CPU usage on Intel cores balanced
>>> badly. On the other hand CPU time usage on AMD Opteron cores balanced
>>> very good with same configuration, so confuse about this.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, e1000 have worked very well for me.
>>
>> Ok, so, you saw that CPU usage on Intel tends to be "inclined" to one
>> of the cores? and on AMD it gets more "balanced"?
>>
>> Also, are talking about network related load here? or just about any
>> processes running on Intel multi-core and AMD multicore.
>>
> With same multi-squid-instance configuration, same Linux distro, and
> different hardware, AMD Opteron gets more balanced CPU usage, while on
> Intel Xeon just one CPU core running out, others still too idle, about
> 5%-15%. When that core runs out, simple TCP SYN check on service
> failed occasional.
>
> I'm still trying to get this problem resolved...:-( Now I'm trying
> linux-2.6.35 kernel :-).
>

So, the only logical conclusion is: AMD rules! :) (I actually like
AMD, but I have never faced this kind of problem with Xeon, or maybe
I'm just not paying attention, will make a few test myself, and see
how it ends).

Thanks for your answer!
Received on Wed Aug 11 2010 - 23:54:13 MDT