Re: [squid-users] Large scale high performance squid on FreeBSD -

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Andriy Korud wrote:

> Hi, I need to setup squid for approx 3000 clients on 30Mbit link. Estimated
> load is 10000reqs/min.
>
> Hardware is Xeon/2.8GHz, 1G RAM, Intel 1000/PRO Ethrenet and 2x36 Ultra320 SCSI
> disks dedicated for cache.

Should be fine, but you might want more than 2 drives for the cache here..

> The problem is the following:
> at about 2000reqs/min Squid works fine using ~50% CPU, however when load grows
> to 3000reqs/min Squid suddenly goes to 100% CPU and system becomes
> unresponsible at all.

Makybe the disks can't keep up and a backlog of requests builds up,
and things spiral out from there..

Is there anything interesting in cache.log?

Regards
Henrik