Re: Squirm and squid 2.1RELEASE on Linux 2.2.1

Well, at most I may have changed some core packages, but I swear
to you that it ran ok with 10 processes on the older kernel :)
Again, dual PPro 200/256M, Squid 2.1RELEASE; Wierd, huh?
I got some high load avg now and then, but I do not recall more
than 4 or 5. Seriously. Maybe it IS getting hit harder these
days by coincidence. It could be I was not paying as close
attention as I should :)

ANyway, I will attempt to pare it down.
Thanks for the response.

Chris Foote wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Miles Lott wrote:
>
> > Admittedly, I have a rather large squirm.patterns file (about 1MB).
>
> Hi Miles.
>
> 1MB is too much - you'd need some kind of supercomputer
> to handle that many patterns :-( Squirm was not designed
> for people wanting to have several thousand lines in their
> squirm.patterns. I have 15 lines, like most ISPs.
>
> > But the problem has shown up only with a move to Linux kernel 2.2.1.
> >
> > The squirm processes consume maximum avail CPU. Since this is a
> > dual PPro200, they read close to 40% for 5 redirectors in top.
> > With the prior kernel, 2.0.33 I believe, they would consume a lot of
> > CPU on startup, but now they seem to maintain this usage pretty
> > consistently. Do I need to modify anything with respect to file
> > descriptors and such with the kernel? I mean Squid seems to run
> > just fine without the redirector...
>
> Nup, I really doubt that the kernel version has to do with the problem.
> Maybe you're actually sending more HTTP requests through the squid
> than before, or that you've increased the number of networks listed
> in the squirm.local - this is a common thing.
>
> Cheers,
>
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Received on Fri Feb 19 1999 - 03:53:19 MST