Re: Sequential sever?

Hossam El-Ashkar wrote:
>
> Now that squid is known to be multithreaded or multitasked... Does it make
> use of parallel processing if existing... I mean if there are multiple
> processor on the machine running squid, does it make use of it? or it is
> just the OS that distributes the multiple threads on the different
> processors??

No, it does not make use of multiple processors. Squid is bottlenecked more
often on I/O than on CPU, so it is questionable whether it would be worth the
considerable additionally complexity.

Squid does have a limited threading facility - it makes use of threads to
launch multiple simultaneous disk requests (ameliorating said diskio
bottleneck), but it is limited in scope and effect.

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