Re: [squid-users] high load issues

From: Justin Lintz <jlintz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:28:26 -0500

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:

>> http_access allow localhost
>> http_access allow all
>
> Why?

Sorry I should mention this is running in a reverse proxy setup

>
> So what is the request/second load on Squid?
> Is RAID involved?

The underlying disks are running in a RAID 1 configuration. Each
server is seeing around 170 rec/sec during peak traffic

>
> You only have 4GB of storage. Thats just a little bit above trivial for
> Squid.
>
> With 4GB of RAM cache and 4GB of disk cache, I'd raise the maximum object
> size a bit. or at least remove the maximum in-memory object size. It's
> forcibly pushing half the objects to disk, when there is just as much space
> in RAM to hold them.
>
> Amos

Would this only be the case for a forward proxy? I'd say probably
less than 1% of our objects are anywhere near the memory limit.
Thanks for the reply
Received on Fri Feb 12 2010 - 16:28:34 MST

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