17k selects/s with 5hit/s ?

Hi,

I'm experiencing heavy loan on my new machine wich SQUID eating up 50%
of Alpha 21264 500Mhz on OSF4.0f and 1GB RAM.

Linux (PII350) with the same squid configuration and net load
(5hit/sec,300kb/s) has 1700 calls to select loops per second eating
only 12% of CPU while my alpha suffers from 17000 select calls per
second !

Squid doesn't suffer from any kind of resource limits.
But the kernel's network settings hadn't been tweaked up yet.

Is it normal ?

I've configured squid to eat 200MB of extra memory and to store
objects on two 9GB drives.

I'll try to compile it with GCC instead of DEC CC but I don't expect
it will do much good.

Squid is the only active service on my system and I have something
like 2(!) diskops per sec.

TIA,
Pawel Pierscionek
Received on Tue Jun 29 1999 - 06:24:20 MDT