wierd phenomena (dual T1's)

we just had another T1 installed. now our squid box is on dual T1's which
are load balanced on the router both incoming and outgoing traffic.
essentially we have more bw now. the physical connection is a 100mbit hme
card to a 100mbit switch, the switch is then uplinked to a cabletron SSR
8000 router which then routes the traffic to a cisco-3600 router. the
3600 has dual serial interfaces (i.e both T1's are on it). the ports on
the SSR and on the switch are not overloaded.

now that we have a full 3.09Mbps, i noticed that squid is using much more
cpu cyles now compared to the same set up just with a single T1. squid
typically used %5-%15 of the cpu in the single T1 setup, now squid uses
%20-%%35 cpu. why would this be???? our client base did not increase, our
client http request rate did not increase only our internet bw increased.

fwiw it's a sol7 latest/greatest patches.
E450, 400Mhz/4MB cache
1GB memory
squid-2.3STABLE2
16KB tcp/udp xmit/recv buffers

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Andrew Stack
UNIX Systems Administrator
State University at New Paltz
Phone: 914.257.3828

GNU/Linux - The choice of a GNU generation.....

One good solution to solve all your windows problems
is to install some flavor of UNIX. 8-)
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Received on Fri May 05 2000 - 13:31:24 MDT