Re: [squid-users] Processor hog?

From: Duane Wessels <wessels@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:43:41 -0600 (MDT)

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, jamie wrote:

> Got a question for the group. I am running squid on a RH7.1 machine. The
> machine has a P3 800 and 384 ram. So it should have more that enough horse
> power to handle caching a 50 user lab. But the users started to complain
> that it was slow. So I did a little checking. Top showed
>
> 20551 squid 17 0 7816 7816 1228 S 30.7 2.0 0:34 squid
> 20552 squid 14 0 1560 1560 660 S 11.9 0.4 0:13 squid Guard
> 20553 squid 9 0 1380 1380 660 S 0.7 0.3 0:02 squid Guard
>
> Now I saw a squid process up to 70% cpu usage. I know this is why it is
> seeming slow to the users but I cannot figure out why this is happening. My
> only clue is this.
>
>
> 2001/07/17 08:16:07| WARNING: All redirector processes are busy.
> 2001/07/17 08:16:07| WARNING: 5 pending requests queued
> 2001/07/17 08:16:07| Consider increasing the number of redirector processes
> in your config file.
>
> We use squidGuard to filter out porn for our school lab. But I have no idea
> how to "increasing the number of redirector processes". Do I just make more
> copies of squid guard? They site said it could handle millions of
> connections per second.

look for 'redirect_children' in your squid.conf file.
Received on Tue Jul 17 2001 - 10:43:42 MDT

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