Re: [squid-users] Sizing a pretty Large Squid Install

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:46:42 +0200

wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:

> why it does not??? especially with diskd there is no reason to not do it
> fully paralell (there is one diskd process per drive). don't know how in
> linux, in netbsd i did random read speed test with 8kB blocks on one drive
> and then on two drives in paralell. there was small difference - but no
> more that 2-3%

Because Squid is not only limited by disk I/O. There are fundamental
design issues limiting the upper speeds of Squid, causing overall
resource usage to grow exponentially with the load.

Most of there are attemting to get addressed by redesigning Squid, but
it is quite far into the future until a redesigned Squid sees the light
unless there comes founding from somewhere to get the redesigns
implemented.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Received on Thu May 10 2001 - 11:05:22 MDT

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