[squid-users] I/O tests and squid

2007-08-12 Thread Ming-Ching Tiew
I wonder if anyone has a good I/O test which will sort of represent the way squid needed the I/O to perform. Basically I need one program which I can use to check the influence of various components of the system ( OS, parameters, harddisk, library version ) on the I/O for maximizing squid perform

Re: [squid-users] I/O tests and squid

2007-08-13 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On mån, 2007-08-13 at 12:06 +0800, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote: > > It seems that the I/O on uclibc-based system runs better than a FC5 > system. > This is will opposite to my expectation. I am not sure if the > conclusion > will > be applicable to running squid. Shouldn't have much effect on Squid as

Re: [squid-users] I/O tests and squid

2007-08-13 Thread Ming-Ching Tiew
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [squid-users] I/O tests and squid

2007-08-13 Thread Ming-Ching Tiew
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Shouldn't have much effect on Squid as Squid is using direct POSIX I/O, >and not C "stdio" I/O, bypassing almost all of the C library. That's why I asked the question, what will be the test which I can run to verify the performance of IO needed

Re: [squid-users] I/O tests and squid

2007-08-14 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On tis, 2007-08-14 at 11:00 +0800, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote: > I am having a system which handles about 9000 active sessions > now, and the iostat result is as such :- > > avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle >0.92 0.001.09 6.16 0.00

Re: [squid-users] I/O tests and squid

2007-08-14 Thread Ming-Ching Tiew
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle >>0.92 0.001.09 6.16 0.00 91.83 > > > It's not much blocking on disk I/O either, only 6.16%. 91.83% of the > time your server is doing

Re: [squid-users] I/O tests and squid

2007-08-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote: > You are obsolutely right about that observation, unfortunately I did not > know how to deal with this transition and users are complaining slow > http response and I had to put Squid off-line. From being able to > handle 9000 requests concurrently, I

Re: [squid-users] I/O tests and squid

2007-08-14 Thread Ming-Ching Tiew
From: "Adrian Chadd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Did you try COSS? > > Commercial units have had a lot more attention. Chances are you've > not gotten someone with Squid expertise to se any of your stuff up > or do any deep analysis of the problems; what did you expect > would happen? > > Is ther