On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 17:26 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2005 16:36, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > * Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050704 16:29]: wrote: > > > * Gert Brits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > You can not run 2 instances of squid on one server... > > > > > > Nonsense. > > > I do it here, it works. > > > > You are right, Ralf. There is even this wiki entry: > > > > http://squidwiki.kinkie.it/squidwiki/MultipleInstances > > I'm pretty sure I can run even ten squids. > > The question is, WHY may one want that. It kind of defeats > the purpose of cache.
Squid doesn't scale well with the number of CPUs. So if you have a multiple-cpu box, the best way to exploit all the computing power is to run as many instances of Squid as the box has processors. Kinkie