Re: [squid-users] high cpu load on Xeon 2.66 with only 3Mbit traffic

I tried to turn this option off before posting to list. No effect at
all.

Any more ideas? I'm ready to provide any details required. Squid is
installed from debian package, with default settings (altered just to
support transparent proxying).. Very strange..

> Try if "half_closed_clients off" helps.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 thor@telecom.sarkor.uz wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm running squid as transparent proxy server for dial-up users.
> > Everything seems to be ok except CPU load. With 1.5 Mbit/s (35 requests
> > per second) traffic through proxy, squid consumes about 50-60% of cpu
> > (40-45% is system time). And with a load of 3-3.5 Mbit/s processor load
> > comes to 90%.
> >
> > The server is single-processor Xeon 2.66 Mhz, 1Gb RAM, 36.6 Gb SCSI
> > disks on AIC7902 controllers. OS is Debian Linux 3.0, kernel 2.4.24.
> >
> > Users are redirected to proxy by this command:
> >
> > iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -s NETWORK -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 \
> > -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128
> >
> > Any advices will be greatly appreciated!!
> >
> > Timur.
> >
Received on Wed Mar 03 2004 - 10:34:10 MST