Re: Is squid unable to handle the load?

On Wed, 27 May 1998, John Lauro wrote:

> On Wed, 27 May 1998 10:45:36 +0200 (MET DST), Morten Guldager Jensen
> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 27 May 1998, Markus Storm wrote:
> >Will it help? I don't think so.
> >
> >As far as I know, Squid does sequential disk IO.
> >
> >So when Squid decides to read a file, everything else has to wait. Then
> >you are waisting the additional disk IO bandwidt comming from the
> >multiple disk drives.
> >
>
> If all squid does was read that might be true,

Ok, squid is doing a read if we have a cache hit, right?

Squid can only do 100 reads pr. second right?

With a cache hit rate at 40% this gives a max rate at 140 reqests/s,
right?

/Morten %-)
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