Re: asyncIO with pthreads ?

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:49:42 +0200

Chris Foote wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if the mit-pthreads package works with squid ?

If I am not mistaken mit-pthreads is a user-space threads package
without kernel threads. There is no point in using this kind of threads
in Squid.

For Squid to gain from --enable-async-io kernel threads is required.
Without kernel threads --enable-async-io will make Squid go a lot
slower.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Sparetime Squid Hacker
Received on Tue Sep 29 1998 - 15:53:27 MDT

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