Hi All, Good day. Just wondering if anyone has tried running Squid 2.4/2.5 on hyperthreaded Intel P4 CPU? Could this be the interim solution?
Rgds, Wei Keong On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2003 19.53, Schelstraete Bart wrote: > > That's maybe a good suggestion for Squid v3.0.......... > > multitasking = work with multiple CPU's > > That should be something nice, as Squid is almost always used on > > servers.......and most server have multiple CPU's. > > Squid-3.0 will not improve in this aspect. The hope is that Squid-3.0 > will be somewhat faster than Squid-2.5, but it sill will use a single > CPU thread only. > > There is much thought going on in how to make Squid SMP scaleable, but > so far all ideas requires rather far going changes to the internals > of Squid, more than what is practically possible in one development > cycle. > > The Squid internal design is gradually being refined and cleaned up > however, and it is not unlikely there at some time will be a SMP > capable Squid available, it won't be Squid-3.0 however, and quite > likely not Squid-3.1 either (at least not fully). > > The Squid-3.0 release is selected as a middleground, with a whole lot > internal redesign most users won't notice but preparing for the > development of more visible news in later releases, combined with a > reasonable amount of noticeable new features much asked for. > > Notice: Very little of the founded work in Squid-3.0 is performance > related. Allmost all is functionality related. The performance > related work and research has been done almost entirely by individual > developers own interest alone. > > Regards > Henrik >
