topic Re: monitor squid performance in Operating System - Linux

monitor squid performance

Siljumon S — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:52:41 GMT

I'm running a squid server for enterprise proxy server. The number of concurrent users are about 800. Many time the processor utilisation of the squid process reaches 100 %

How can I improve the performance of the squid? How can I do fine tuning or what is the hardware requirement to server this much load. My link speed is 2 Mbps

Re: monitor squid performance

Patrick Terlisten — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:26:46 GMT

Hi,

would you told us a bit more about your hardware? Which distribution and which version of squid?

Regards,
Patrick

Re: monitor squid performance

Steven E. Protter — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:20:39 GMT

Hello Sijumon,

Just because squid takes 100% of cpu does not mean anything is wrong. If there is nothing else important happenning on the machine then squid using the whole cpu is not a problem.

If there are other important processes being denied cpu time by squid then think about patching squid.

It is a common misconeption that 100% use is a bad thing. What is it there for if not be used?

SEP

Re: monitor squid performance

Siljumon S — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:06:52 GMT

Hardware Details

HP Proliant DL 380

DUAL CPU
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2789.894
cache size : 512 KB

1 GB RAM

Total 72 BG HDD SPACE

Details of the space used by SQUID
output of mount
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7 on /var/log/squid type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p13 on /proxy_cache type ext3 (rw,noatime)
output of df
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7 20G 1.6G 17G 9% /var/log/squid
/dev/cciss/c0d0p13 1.7G 69M 1.6G 5% /proxy_cache

OS: FC2
kernel: 2.6.5-1.358smp

How can I monitor my squid performance and make sure that it is functioning properly.

Re: monitor squid performance

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:37:36 GMT

If you have bucks(moolah, cash, etc), the best tool is Glance for Linux.

It has a nice gui and you can drill in to monitor performance.

Otherwise perhaps gpm graphic performance monitor, which is pretty standard for Linux installs.

Last, put together some sar scripts.

SEP

Re: monitor squid performance

Siljumon S — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:02:44 GMT

Thank you all.My squid server is still using 100 % in between. It is due to the load only and it does not create any problem for the server