RE: [squid-users] Help Needed: Any suggestion on performance downgrade after enable Cache Digest?

One thing missed: I'm using Squid 2.6 STABLE 19. Thanks.

Best Regards,
Bo Zhou
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Zhou, Bo(Bram) [mailto:bramzhou@cienet.com.cn]
>> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:48 PM
>> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
>> Subject: [squid-users] Help Needed: Any suggestion on performance
downgrade
>> after enable Cache Digest?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently I did some interesting performance testing on the Squid
configured
>> with Cache Digest Enabled. The testing result shows that the Squid use
more
>> than 20% CPU time than the Squid running without Cache Digest. Following
are
>> my detailed testing environment and configuration and result. Anyone can
>> give me some light on the possible reason will be greatly appreciated.
>> Please also point out the possible configuration errors if any. Thanks a
>> lot.
>>
>> 1. Hardware configuration : HP DL380
>> (1) Squid Server
>> CPU: 2 Xeon 2.8GHz CPUs, each Xeon CPU has 2 Cores
>> Memory size: 6G, Disk: 36G, NIC: 1000M
>> (2) Client and Web Server : Dell Vostro200 running with Web Polygraph
3.1.5
>>
>> 2. Squid Configuration
>> (1) 2 Squid instances are running on the same HP server, each using same
IP
>> address but different PORT, pure in memory cache
>> Squid1 configuration:
>> http_port 8081
>> cache_mem 1024 MB
>> cache_dir null /tmp
>> cache_peer 192.168.10.2 sibling 8082 0 proxy-only
>> digest_generation on
>> digest_bits_per_entry 5
>> digest_rebuild_period 1 hour
>> digest_swapout_chunk_size 4096 bytes
>> digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage 10
>>
>> Squid2 configuration:
>> http_port 8082
>> cache_mem 1024 MB
>> cache_dir null /tmp
>> cache_peer 192.168.10.2 sibling 8081 0 proxy-only
>> digest_generation on
>> digest_bits_per_entry 5
>> digest_rebuild_period 1 hour
>> digest_swapout_chunk_size 4096 bytes
>> digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage 10
>>
>> 3. 2 Polygraph Clients are used to send HTTP requests to Squid instances.
>> Different client send request to different Squid instance. Each client
>> configures 1000 users with 1.2 request/s, so totally each client send
1200
>> requests/s.
>>
>> 4. Test result (Note: since 4 CPU used on the server, the total CPU
>> utilization is 400%)
>> (1) Running 2 Squid instances with Cache Digest Enabled, each handles
1200
>> request/second:
>> Each instance used ~95% CPU even during the time Squid didn't rebuild the
>> digest
>>
>> (2) Running 2 Squid instances with Cache Digest Enabled, one handles 1200
>> request/second, one is idle(no traffic to it)
>> The one with traffic has CPU utilization ~65%, the other one is idle
>>
>> (3) Running 2 Squid instances with Cache Digest Disabled, each handles
1200
>> request/second:
>> Each instance used ~75% CPU
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Bo Zhou
>>
>>
Received on Tue Apr 22 2008 - 13:34:35 MDT