Re: [squid-users] Squid-2, Squid-3, roadmap

Steve,

adzapper uses a very large amount of CPU time compared to other redirectors.
On my box Squid uses 6.5 times more CPU time than the redirector (ufdbGuard).

Marcus

Steve Snyder wrote:
> On Thursday 06 March 2008 11:05:24 am Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Well, the way I'd approach it is to first get an idea of how to throw
>> things into 'threads', and probably draft and craft a basic event loop
>> and submission queue for "stuff" to happen across threads.
>>
>> Then "Squid" can run as one thread, and CPU intensive stuff can happen
>> via message queues to other threads.
>
> The most CPU-intensive part of Squid is sometimes not Squid at all but
> redirectors (corporate standards filters, anti-virus, etc.).
>
> I use Cameron Simpson's AdZapper. a URL rewriter that does just what its
> name suggests. The combined CPU use of the rewriters (12 instances
> defined, 8 in typical simultaneous use) is usually 3 - 4 times that of
> the Squid daemon itself.
>
> In situations like this I image that there would be significant overall
> improvement of proxy performance just in having Squid and it's child
> processes run on different CPUs.
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 06 2008 - 10:24:18 MST