RE: [squid-users] PLEASE HELP: Large cache deployment and squid

From: David Robb <david.robb@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:30:56 +1200 (NZST)

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Mitesh P Choksi wrote:

> In case this gives some idea. As soon as i started the L4 switching to point
> to squid server, the system usage, i.e. squid usage jumped to and hit 99%.
> This was about 12 requests/second.

Are you using linux 2.4's ip_tables stuff, or the ipchains module? I had a
similar problem when deploying 2.4 on our large squid cluster here,
because I was upgrading from a 2.2 kernel. The ipchains module seems to
chew up _massive_ amounts of system resources.

David Robb

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