On Tue, Mar 18, 2008, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:37 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > it matter if process all the request on one CPU, or part on one part on
> > another? Given NUMA it clearly does matter, but how many folk run
> > squid/want to run squid on a NUMA machines?
>
> NUMA comes in many forms. SMP Opteron is a quote common NUMA server, and
> a quite likely Squid server hardware candidate when we venture into
> multithread/multiprocess land..
Well, with the advent of multicore boxes with hierarchical cache and memory
constructs you will probably find a well-tuned application + aware operating
system can get quite a benefit from abusing local caching.
(A cache being cache aware; how delightful! :)
Adrian
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