Re: Is squid unable to handle the load?

On Tue, 26 May 1998, Mark Dabrowski wrote:

> As you can see when the disk operations / second go above 100 (12th
> column), the CPU idle time goes 100% (last column), which basically means
> squid freezes...
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but that means our SCSI controller (Adaptec 2940
> Ultra) / disk is maxing out at 100 operations / second...

Not sure about that one, but decent controllers do 2000 ops or so ....
Given an average seek time of 10 ms per access (remember it's mostly
non-clustered, single random accesses), you're maxing out the disk.

Try adding more disks.

Markus

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