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, > > Chris Foote SE Net > Technical Manager 222 Grote Street > SE Network Access Adelaide SA 5000 > e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia > phone : (08) 8221 5221 PGP Public Key available from > fax: (08) 8221 5220 http://www.senet.com.au/PGP > support: (08) 8221 5792
