> I gather from your comments that ASYNCIO is similar in nature to the BSD/OS
> file system's "soft update" feature. As I recall from a colleague's tests,
> the performance improvement from using "soft updates" eliminated the need
> to add a second processor to systems we were designing for our customers.
No actually, soft updates is a filesystem feature to do with operation
ordering, asyncio is a Squid feature to do with multithreaded IO.
Both have fairly nice impact on squid :-) Linux with asyncio definitely has
the performance edge tho.
David.
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