ok. Thank you very much.
Best regards, Edward Millington. BSc, Network+ Systems Administrator Cariaccess Communications Ltd. Palm Plaza Wildey St. Michael Barbados 1-246-430-7435 Fax : 1-246-431-0170 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cariaccess.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [OOPS] increasing the number of threads on linux > Oh, yeah...threads. No, in neither case did threads ever approach 900. > In fact, at the time threads had a hard limit in Linux, so I set it to > 512 for my tests, which was plenty for the benchmarks that I did. > Admittedly, the polygraph benchmark was running on local machines, so > each request could complete in ~3 seconds for misses and under a second > for hits. So the number of concurrent connections doesn't have to be > very high. > > Joe Cooper wrote: > > I've benchmarked it on both Linux and FreeBSD. I have very little > > knowledge of FreeBSD, however, so it may not have been properly tuned (I > > followed Squid and Polygraph tuning instructions, which I think should > > be suitable for Oops as well). > > > > I found them to perform very similarly. Not enough performance > > difference to consider significant. > > > > And as I've said before, Oops is great at low loads client numbers, but > > when scaling up to much higher request rates (anything over about 70 on > > my test hardware) it falls over. Same hardware sustains 90-110 running > > Squid depending on Squid version (2.2STABLE5 being the fastest, with 2.4 > > and 2.5 being somewhat close...2.3 is the slowest). > > > > The hardware is an old 850 model of our Tsunami line...450MHz K6-2, 256 > > or 512 MB of RAM (have tested with both along the way) and two 7200 RPM > > IDE disks. > > > > Edward Millington wrote: > > > >> All of this do sound good. > >> > >> Joe! When you ran oops, was it on linux? > >> > >> What was the machine config? > >> > >> did you see the thread hit 1000? > >> > >> Thank you very much. > > -- > Joe Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.swelltech.com > Web Caching Appliances and Support > > ===================================================================== > If you would like to unsubscribe from this list send message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe oops-eng" in message body. > Archive is accessible on http://lists.paco.net/oops-eng/ > ===================================================================== If you would like to unsubscribe from this list send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe oops-eng" in message body. Archive is accessible on http://lists.paco.net/oops-eng/
