RE: [squid-users] Linux 2.6 Kernel. Any benefits?

Hmm, 2 conflicting ovservation. Any other squid users care to share their
findings?

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Lizzy Dizzy wrote:

> Has anybody switched from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel? Do you really see
a
> performance boost in squid?

From the early attempts there still seems to be problems getting the VM
system balanced for Squid, causing a lot of swap activity even if there is
plenty of memory.

Regards
Henrik

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Marcondes [mailto:bmarcondes@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:40 AM
To: Lizzy Dizzy
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Linux 2.6 Kernel. Any benefits?

I'm running smoothly a RH 9 server with kernel 2.6.6 and squid 2.5
stable 4, with great improvements on VM handling , before kernel 2.6
it use to swap even thou I don't have a memory shortage .

[]'s

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 06:11:25 +0000, Lizzy Dizzy <lizzy_99@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am keen to switch my kernel to 2.6.7, due to reports that it is much
more
> efficient that the current 2.4 kernel. I am currently using Squid 2.5-S4.
>
> Has anybody switched from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel? Do you really see
a
> performance boost in squid?
>
> Thanks
> Liz
>
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