[squid-users] Squid on a powerfull server: how to setup ?

I already asked a similar question about 1 year ago but at that time
we had to use the servers for other jobs.

Now I've got brand new servers. They are very powerfull, 16 2.90ghz
cores, 32 GB ram, 3 couples of raid1 146GB 15k disks and SSD may
arrive in the near future.

I installed 3.3.5 and yesterday upgraded to 3.3.8.

There is a single squid instance on each server, serving about 1500
users with a proxy.pac splitting requests.
and as you may imagine load is very low and sometimes "top" has more
cpu % than "squid".

I'd like to know which kind of configuration setup is possible to use
all this work power and ram. I read about SMP or about multiple squid
instances running on different ports...

Which settings to put ram usage at maximum ?

Thanks
Received on Wed Jul 17 2013 - 08:45:01 MDT