Re: Async-io: verdict?

From: Joe Cooper <joe@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:20:57 -0500

Chris Conn wrote:
>
> Hello to all,
>
> I have been reading about optimizing squid performance and all articles
> related to the subject indicate usage of async-io. However, this list
> seems to repeatedly indicate that async-io is troublesome. What is the
> concensus of using async-io on a Linux 2.2.16 platform, 2 18GB 10K SCSI
> disks, Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI, 512MB ram, Squid 2.3STABLE4.

It's a bad idea. Async in 2.3.x is not stable, and it does not perform
very well compared to 2.2S5.
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Received on Tue Jul 25 2000 - 15:17:23 MDT

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