Re: [squid-users] increase child process

That has nothing to do with the number of child processes. When asking
questions, it is usually best not to assume you already know the answer.
Squid does not "hold" a request until other requests are finished. It
is a non-blocking single process design.

Check DNS service speed. It is nearly always the reason folks complain
about slow Squid performance.

Check the cachemgr info page:

client mgr:info

Look at the service times on that page and see what you see.

You should also confirm that there are no network problems on the server
itself. Use lynx or whatever browser you have handy to browse around
some from the cache server itself. If it is slow, then you have network
problems to solve, not Squid problems.

Finally, make sure you aren't going into swap with your Squid. If you
don't have enough memory on the machine, Squid will be forced into swap,
which slows it significantly.

RAHUL KARTHA wrote:
> Hi Joe
>
> what i did was created a singel squd for my network and now when i
> monitore it i see that when one request is been process it hols the other
> requests for a long time and most of the time i have to refresh the
> browser but when i have load on the suid it can be pretty irritating to
> wait that long so how do i fasten the squid process
>
> regards
> rahul
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
> To: "RAHUL KARTHA" <sapnaelectronics@hotmail.com>
> Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] increase child process
>
>
>
>>Run more parent processes. ;-)
>>
>>Squid is a single process server, based on a select on poll loop. I
>>runs a single parent process, which then spawns a child to actually
>>serve requests.
>>
>>It is possible to use disk I/O threads by using the aufs storeio type.
>>I don't know if the stock Red Hat RPM supports the aufs disk type. This
>>will lead to the appearence of many child processes (16 per disk
>>specifically). But they are merely I/O threads, used to provide
>>asyncronous disk access to the single child process that is actually
>>serving requests.
>>
>>Why do you want more child processes?
>>
>>RAHUL KARTHA wrote:
>>
>>>hi
>>>can any one tel me how do i increse the no of child process in
>>>squid2.4stable6-6.7
>>>
>>>regards
>>>rahul
>>
>>--
>>Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
>>Web caching appliances and support.
>>http://www.swelltech.com
>>
>
>

-- 
Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
Web caching appliances and support.
http://www.swelltech.com