2009/1/8 Alex Rousskov <rouss...@measurement-factory.com>: > SMP support has been earmarked for Squid v3.2 but there is currently not > enough resources to make it happen (AFAICT) so it may have to wait until > v3.3 or later. > > FWIW, I think that multi-core scalability in many environments would not > require another Squid rewrite, especially if initial support does not > have to do better than running multiple Squids.
Well, people are already doing that where its suitable. Whats really missing for those sorts of setups is a simple(!) storage-only backend and some smarts in Squid to be able to push and pull stuff out of a shared storage backend, rather than relaying through it. The trouble, as I've found here, is if you're trying to aggregate a bunch of forward proxy squid instances on one box through one backend squid instance - all of a sudden you end up with lots of RAM wastage and things die at high loads with all the duplicate data floating around in socket buffers. :/ Adrian
