Re: Performance problem on Solaris 2.5.1

Ery,
        We used to have a very simlar setup here, but the problems seen
before have gone away by the upgrade to Solaris 2.6 and by using select()
instead of poll(). I did not use the GNU malloc library, and the disks were
arranged as a Raid 1 partition across 3 disks controllers in an SSA. Our
bottlenecks occurred in disk I/O and these changes solved that.
        At the moment we're happily getting around 50-100,000 connections
per hour on the 2.6 machine.
        You could try decreasing the meomry value here so the squid process
doesn't use too much and stop swapping? Others may have better ideas.

Rich.

> Dear,
>
> We have Squid V 1.1.21 running on Ultra Sparc 2, RAM 512MB, Harddisk
> 24G, with OS Solaris 2.5.1. We encounter performance degradation after
> running the squid for about 10-12 Hours, we have already follow the
> instruction that we got from the mailing list digest, but we still
> encounter the problem.
> Right now we use GNUMalloc package for the malloc routine and GCC
> 2.7.2.1 as the compiler. The statistic form the cache information show
> the average connection for 1 hour about 50.000-80.000 connections. There
> are 20.000 to 30.000 users we have that connected to the internet via
> that solaris box (actually we have 3 identical machine).
> The main configuration of squid.conf show like this :
>
> cache_swap 17000
> cache_mem 200
>
> httpd_accel 202.134.0.227 80
> httpd_accel_with_proxy on
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
>
> we running the machine on transparent proxy mode inconjunction with
> Cisco 7500 router. IP filter 3.2.7 have been installed on the solaris
> box as the redirector. The main problem we got for 10 Hours period, the
> memory shown by the vmstat always decrement (it's seem memory leak) into
> smaller number (we notice almost 70% of the swap memory used). Paging
> activity is so high, and the disk activity shown by the iostat at the
> level 100%!.
> Could be the memory allocation problem solve by using any other malloc
> library, for example DL malloc ? although we got problem on the
> compiling the DL malloc library for our squid 1.1.21. Or, the Metadisk
> daemon we use can eat all the io process ? (the iostat show very high
> number), avg disk service about 20ms ...
> Is there anybody can help us, we really desperately to get the squid
> machine fine tuned :(
>
> Thanks
>
> Ery Punta Hw
> Product Manage
> TELKOMNet
> e-mail:phunta@telkom.net.id
> phone:62-21-3160500
>

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