On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Adrian Immanuel Kieß <adr...@kiess.at>wrote:
> Dear list, > > since several months and upgrades I encountered the problem that squid > uses too much CPU time under NetBSD 6.1 and my proxy server is nearly to > unusable now. > > I installed the default squid from /usr/pkgsrc/www/squid using > pkgsrc-2013-Q2. Every HTTP webpage request lets squid meditate for > several seconds until the page is served. The network download itself > seems comparatively fast. > > Maybe someone seen this behavior of squid too and give me a hint? I > moved my squid installation from GNU/Debian to this NetBSD box and I > remember -- there I did not have this problem with nearly the same > configuration. > > Thank you very much! > > Sincerely, > > Adrian Immanuel KIESS > > -- > With greetings from Leipzig, Germany. > Adrian Immanuel Kieß > > Administrator & programmer > Unix / Perl / LaTeX > > mail: <adrian (at) kiess.at> > www: http://www.kiess.at > Have you tried ktrace-ing squid to see what it's doing during these pauses? It sounds like it's probably scanning/writing the cache?
