Re: [squid-users] Run 2 squids on same computer

From: Kinkie <kinkie-squid@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:39:40 +0200

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 17:26 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Monday 04 July 2005 16:36, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > * Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de> [20050704 16:29]: wrote:
> > > * Gert Brits <gbrits@techconcepts.co.za>:
> > >
> > > > You can not run 2 instances of squid on one server...
> > >
> > > Nonsense.
> > > I do it here, it works.
> >
> > You are right, Ralf. There is even this wiki entry:
> >
> > http://squidwiki.kinkie.it/squidwiki/MultipleInstances
>
> I'm pretty sure I can run even ten squids.
>
> The question is, WHY may one want that. It kind of defeats
> the purpose of cache.

Squid doesn't scale well with the number of CPUs. So if you have a
multiple-cpu box, the best way to exploit all the computing power is to
run as many instances of Squid as the box has processors.

        Kinkie
Received on Mon Jul 04 2005 - 16:39:47 MDT

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