Re: Large scale transparent proxying

From: Pete Yandell <pete@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:11:07 +1000

> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Pete Yandell wrote:
>
>> I'm running squid-2.2.STABLE4 under NetBSD 1.4.1 doing transparent
>> proxying without caching, and with about 200 concurrent users (I don't
>> have a figure for number of hits per second) the load gets really high
>> (85% CPU usage or thereabouts) on a Pentium II 450 with 256Mb of RAM.
>> A lot of that load seems to be system CPU time dealing with the
>> required NAT translation.
>>
>> It seems to me that load shouldn't really be high...what it's doing is
>> really pretty simple, especially given that it's not caching.
>
> Just a thought, but what sort of network card are you using?

Intel EtherExpress 10/100 (running at 100).
Received on Thu Oct 14 1999 - 23:18:27 MDT

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