Re: [squid-users] squid + Intel STL2 and slow performance after few hours

I don't have any specific STL 2 information, but we have begun shipping
machines running on the ServerSet III platform on Tyan Thunder 2510
motherboards (same chipset and ethernet chip as the STL2, but a
different SCSI controller), with and without dual processors. They work
  beautifully. I benched a dual 933 MHz processor box with dual 10k
SCSI disks an 1GB of RAM at 300 reqs/sec, and CPU loads around 70%/50%.
  I expect a couple more drives would have taken it up another ~100
req/sec or more before CPU became an issue. This box was for a website
  accelerator, so it didn't really need much in the way of drive
throughput.

Good luck.

Mitesh P Choksi wrote:

> An update here,
>
> Kernel 2.4.2 and kernel 2.4.6 both don't work. I have tried to find out any
> problems with Interl STL2 motherboard with 2 1GHz processors and 1GB RAM
> but have not got any answers. Intel sent a doc to check the MPS version set
> to 1.1 and not 1.4 which could give the problem. The BIOS does not have any
> facility to change that version.
>
> So as it stands, the server is next to useless, unless after some time I use
> it as my personal web cache server. :(
>
> Something to do with kernel as I have realised that when i stop squid and
> have large 'memory cache' even untarring takes up all that cpu utilisation
> even ftp download is slow.
>
> I will keep trying but any input is highly appreciated. (anyone using SLT2
> server board with linux+squid?)
>
> Mitesh

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Received on Wed Jul 25 2001 - 22:05:40 MDT