It will run, but won't make use of the hyperthreading (hyperthreading is a form of SMP).
Regards Henrik On Monday 07 July 2003 04.22, Wei Keong wrote: > 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
