RE: [squid-users] squid + Intel STL2 and slow performance after fewhours [Was: RE: [squid-users] PLEASE HELP: Large cache deployment and squid]

Problem solved for now.

kernel downgrade to 2.2.19 helped. The box now shows less requests per
minute in Genreal Runtime Information because they are served faster.

The throughput is superb. CPU utilisation is 1-5% depending on requests.
10req/sec doesn't matter now. before it used to go to 80-90% utilisation.

Tested for more than 12 hours now. Will update if need be.

Thank you everybody and I hope that I can share my experiences with all
other newbies.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Cooper [mailto:joe@swelltech.com]
Sent: 26 July 2001 07:13
To: mitesh.choksi@stcl.com
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] squid + Intel STL2 and slow performance after
fewhours

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 Thu Jul 26 2001 - 02:24:11 MDT