Re: [squid-users] squid busy even when its not working...(?) bug?

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:30:45 +1300

Linda W wrote:
> With no processes attaching to squid -- no activity -- no open
> network connections -- only squid listening for connections --
> why is squid walking up doing a busy-wait so often?
>
> It's the most active process -- even when it is supposedly doing nothing?
>
> I'm running it on suse10.3, squid-beta-3.0-351 so maybe it is something
> that has been fixed?
>
>
> Wakeups-from-idle per second : 102.2 interval: 10.0s
>
> Top causes for wakeups:
> 58.4% ( 62.6) squid : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)

Ah wakeups. Looks like one of the inefficient listening methods is being
used. Squid _polls_ its listening sockets in one of several ways. Some
of these can cause lot of wakeups.

Amos

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