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

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