Re: [squid-users] Memory pools: why use them?

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:42:17 +0200

> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 14:03 +0200, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> > Hello list.
> > Can anybody explain me what memory pools are and what benefits I would
> > get by using them?

On 30.08 22:18, Robert Collins wrote:
> Its the other way around: they are on by default, leave them on unless
> *you know of a specific reason to disable them*.
>
> memory pools are a performance optimisation within squid.

however that did not answer his first question ;)

IIUC, they are blocks of reserved/unused memory, which squid maintains
itself instead of running malloc/free on the memory (and letting the
malloc library to maintain the memory)

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