Re: Some optimisations

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:08:05 +0200

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> If you want optimal paging behaviour then you should do block aligned
> writes using page aligned pages of memory. In that case some OS'es avoid
> data copying by duplicating the page in the disk cache and mark is as
> COW.

Oh, well there is also another case where block aligned writes is a good
idea, and that is when writing where it already exists data. However,
Squid currently does not overwrite file content so this is a non-issue
for Squid.

/Henrik
Received on Sat Sep 16 2000 - 10:06:53 MDT

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