Re: [squid-users] tuning squid 2.3/2.4 on a slow connection

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 00:44:47 -0600

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001, fooler wrote:

> no matter how you tweak and optimize the same old architecture of a given OS,
> still squid req/sec throughput will not significantly increase. squid bottleneck
> is the disk i/o and you have to develop a new technique/algorithm to improve
> disk i/o. adrian did the right thing to improve disk i/o performance, he is
> working right now with his IFS. i believe this will significantly increase the
> req/sec throughput of squid.
>
> for more info about his latest work, click this url:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/ifs/
>
> oh btw adrian, when is the tentative date to release your IFS? :->

Aaaahaha. uhm, I kinda have it already working. I just haven't gotten
around to rewriting the rebuild from filesystem code yet. When some
work on tidying up the existing FS code is completed I'll put in
some extra effort in porting IFS to FreeBSD-stable.

Too much work, too little time? :-)

Adrian
Received on Mon Apr 09 2001 - 00:44:47 MDT

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