Re: [squid-users] Dual Processor

Hi,

I have a unique situation, and I'm wondering if you other Squid users have
some perspective.

I have had the experience of dealing with Apple's new XServe on Mac OS X
Server. Apple includes an HTTP accelerator called webperfcache that
provides extremely fast performance (over 2000 hits/sec on small-size web
pages).

I'm assuming that this performance is due to either the multithreaded
nature of Apple's webperfcache application and/or some kernel hooks.

Squid's performance is about half what webperfcache is on Mac OS X and
only slightly better than Apache (Squid is in http accelerator mode of
course). Your previous discussion on this thread has revealed that even
in async-io mode, Squid will not significantly benefit from multiple
processors.

Are there any development plans to make Squid more multi-processor
friendly? With Apache 2.0 coming into widespread usage with its own
accelerator and proxy cache features, is Squid still a viable option?

I apologize if this has already been discussed before or if this message
is way off topic.

Thanks,

Erik.

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Brian wrote:

> I learned this the hard way. Yes, two CPUs can often be worse than one in
> a pure IO situation.
>
> -- Brian
>
> On Wednesday 10 July 2002 10:27 am, you wrote:
> > in my opinion, i think that having 2 cpu's is no extra advantage seeing
> > as squid will force the cpu's to argue about locking etc ... due to the
> > squid disk usage policies.
> >
> > This might be lending itself to make the cpu's block one another .. ??
> > any comments?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Francisco Obispo [mailto:fobispo@nic.ve]
> > Sent: 10 July 2002 04:17
> > To: Robert Rapp
> > Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Dual Processor.
>
Received on Thu Jul 11 2002 - 11:51:34 MDT