High CPU utilisation with web proxy

RouterOS General
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Hi,

I’m using an Intel board with 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4 CPU and 512 MB RAM and also two disks, one disk for the system (70 GB) and second for web proxy (160 GB), but at 12 Mbit/s of traffic the CPU is at 100% utilised, so the CPU never gets below 70%. When I disable web proxy the CPU never gets higher than 5%-7%, I’m using verson 3.16 of RouterOS, and what I’m interested is to continue to use web proxy but to tweak the CPU utilisation.

Regards.

Faton

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Hi,

I’m not a MT Guru, but in our experience, MT is good as a proxy for lower speeds / user-base. We’ve moved our proxy to a separate box since the day we went beyond 10 Mbps. Today we’re at 70 Mbps, and we’ve got 2 separate dedicated proxy boxes to handle our load.

Just my two cents. Hope it helps.

Regards
HASSAN