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• Make/Model: Apple iMac 2011(TODO: double-check the year)
• CPU: 3.4 Ghz Intel Core i7 (quad-core)
• Memory: 8GB
• Disk: 1TB
• OS: Mac OS X v10.8.5

IP Address Listening And Ports

Unlike Apache HTTP Server, Traffic Server takes a little more work to get things up and running.
The following settings are all located in the main configuration file, which by default is
/usr/local/etc/trafficserver/records.config.

Specifically, the following directive should be set unless you want Traffic Server listening on
every possible interface:

LOCAL proxy.local.incoming_ip_to_bind STRING 127.0.0.1 ::1

This page will be an attempt to document my current findings in tuning ATS.

TODO

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When adding lines, simply organize them in alphabetic sequence.

CPU Cores (or multiple CPUs)

The default config for ATS supports 2 CPUs. I have 4 and decided to update the config to reflect that.
One could actually increase this setting higher, but I'm not a huge fan of Hyperthreading so I didn't bother.

CONFIG proxy.config.exec_thread.affinity INT 1
CONFIG proxy.config.exec_thread.limit INT 4