[squid-users] Multiple Squid Instances

2011-08-24 Thread viswanathan sekar
Hi All, I had an argument with my friends telling them that mulitple squid instances in multi-core processors will give better performance with iptables load balancing. Some of my friends disagreed with me telling single squid instance will give same performance. I am really confused, which will

[squid-users] multiple squid Instances

2007-09-17 Thread Srinivas B
Hi, I am using Squid 2.6 stable 12. I have one squid instance as frontend for apache web server. Now I need one more squid instance with ssl-enable option on the same box (as existing squid instance can not handle https_port directive, it was build with non ssl option). Is this possible? can I b

Re: [squid-users] Multiple Squid Instances

2011-08-24 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 24/08/11 21:46, viswanathan sekar wrote: Hi All, I had an argument with my friends telling them that mulitple squid instances in multi-core processors will give better performance with iptables load balancing. Some of my friends disagreed with me telling single squid instance will give same p

Re: [squid-users] Multiple Squid Instances

2011-08-24 Thread viswanathan sekar
Thanks for the replying Amos, I am going to test with CPU affinity with multi-core, * i will run multiple squid instances in multi-core , that is each instance run in specific core, for example squid1 in CPU #0 and squid2 in CPU #1 * with iptables using --probability to load balance the squid

Re: [squid-users] Multiple Squid Instances

2011-08-29 Thread Henrik Nordström
ons 2011-08-24 klockan 15:16 +0530 skrev viswanathan sekar: > Is squid IO bound or CPU bound ? Depends on how it's being used, your systems I/O capabilities, configuration and many other parameters. The main relecant prameters are * Cache or no cache * Forward or reverse proxy * Type of cache_di

Re: [squid-users] Multiple Squid Instances

2011-08-29 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 25/08/11 03:12, viswanathan sekar wrote: Thanks for the replying Amos, I am going to test with CPU affinity with multi-core, * i will run multiple squid instances in multi-core , that is each instance run in specific core, for example squid1 in CPU #0 and squid2 in CPU #1 * with iptables u

Re: [squid-users] Multiple Squid Instances

2011-08-30 Thread fredbmail
I know it's not exactly answering your question, but i tried squid with SMP (workers http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SmpScale) OS Debian Lenny Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 (4 cores) Load: 350/400 requests by second Squid 3.1.12 can increase CPU utilization with more than 80/90 % - one core

Re: [squid-users] multiple squid Instances

2007-09-17 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On mån, 2007-09-17 at 13:25 -0700, Srinivas B wrote: > I have one squid instance as frontend for apache web server. Now I > need one more squid instance with ssl-enable option on the same box > (as existing squid instance can not handle https_port directive, it > was build with non ssl option). >