[squid-users] Squid Performance Tuning with 0 IO Wait

Hi Everyone,

I am currently doing performance testing with squid 3 and I seem to be
running into some bottlenecks. I have done exhaustive research
through the squid mail archives, Duane Wessels O'reilly book(a great
resource) and other areas.

I have a dual hyperthreading Xeon machine with 8GB of Ram running
CentOS 5.2 with its 2.6.18 based kernel. This machine is hooked up to
an I/O subsystem that essentially provides no device I/O waits. This
has been confirmed with 'top' showing effectively 0%wa during peak
load periods.

Apart from I/O tuning, what measures should I take to tune squid for
maximum requests per second and cache hit rates?

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,
Ben Jonston
Received on Thu Mar 12 2009 - 22:23:45 MDT