[c-nsp] WCCP performance problem on a 7600

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008, Charles Glass wrote:

> Testing with Squid (2 caches) and mask assignment I was able to get 32
> mask values per cache. The weight attribute did not appear to have any
> effect on distribution of the mask values as it does with hash
> assignment.

Then use squid. :)

> I would like to use mask assignment for obvious reasons but having
> only 3 mask values per cache is not feasible.
> 
> Thanks for the info on this it is greatly appreciated.

You're just not going to get sensible performance scaling on these
devices without the whole path being in hardware.

(ObNote; I haven't touched or adminned WCCPv2 on a 7600 w/ ES modules;
I've just touched it on the 6500 and I've heard lots of stories from
7600 + squid users. :)




Adrian