Re: [squid-users] hyperthreading?

From: Stephen Amadei <amadei@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:38:47 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Wei Keong wrote:

> Was reading up on this and wondering if hyperthreading will improve squid
> performance... anyone tried this, any input?
>
> http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20021202/index.html

There was a report on Slashdot, IIRC, that claimed up to a 31% increase
using Linux 2.4.19 with HTing. 2.5.3x kernels saw a 51% increase. This
was third party testing, not Intel.

We're using some dual processor 2.4 Xeons... with HT... and they do come
up with four penguins... and they are _very_ fast. However, I have not
performed any formal benchmarking... and they aren't running Squid.

However, we are going to get two more just for Squid in a few months.

I won't speculate on the merits of SMP with Squid, as I have no
benchmarks to compare.

                                        ----Steve
Stephen Amadei
Dandy.NET! CTO
Atlantic City, NJ
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