Re: Squid hangs weekly on SUN Ultra

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Bertold Kolics wrote:

> > we've been wrestling with this problem for months now, and it's not
> > getting better. Can anybody help?
> Just a thought:
> maybe you should upgrade to Solaris 2.6
>
> We saw major performance improvement after upgrading from 2.5 (and not
> 2.5.1) to 2.6

As a patch, a recent series of posts on the SAGE-AU list about Squid on a
Sun Ultra led to:

--
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
 sync
 sleep 2
done
--
Which is apparently from Stew Foster recomended at a Squid tute at a sage
conference last year to even out I/O stuff.
--==--
Bruce.
Systems Administrator
    Hub Communications.
Who personally would be putting in multiple machines if you are dealing
with a largish University site.