Re: squid-users-digest Digest V97 #62

>
> I had exactly the same problems with the redirector. I lifted it to
> the maximum of 32 processes, and it was still queuing requests. The
> redirector processes were simple perl scripts of the form..
> $| = 1;
> while (<>) { s/xxxx/yyyy/; print }
>
> and doing an strace on them confirmed that they were NOT doing
> blocking I/O, that the only system calls the script was doing was
> read(...);
> write(...);
> and the the read - write gap was < 1ms. (i.e. immediate turn
> around). Squid however was still frequently using all 32 of them!
>

By default perl use buffered io, maybe setting it to unbuffer will help.
Something like "select(STDOUT); $| = 1;" should do it.

John

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John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za