Re: [squid-users] Re: About bottlenecks (Max number of connections, etc.)

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:49:42 +1300

On 24/02/2013 5:16 p.m., Manuel wrote:
> I have found that Squid only has 16384 file descriptors available (despite
> ulimit, etc. seems to be config properly). Squid was installed via yum
> (squid-2.6.STABLE21-6.el5) and it seems that it has this config
> --with-maxfd=16384 so max_filedesc setting is probably being useless. I will
> rebuild squid-2.6.STABLE21-6.el5.src.rpm without --with-maxfd setting and
> see if it works

Since you are interested in performance I really suggest test driving
Squid 3.2 or 3.3.
Either of them is a good 100 req/sec faster than 2.6 was on our slow
test machinery, and they also gain performance from HTTP/1.1 bandwidth
savings beyond the raw CPU processing gains in the code.

Amos
Received on Sun Feb 24 2013 - 04:49:47 MST

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