Re: [squid-users] squid running on Linux vs. squid running on FreeBSD

From: Anders Nordby <anders@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:01:29 +0200

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:38:41AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>> Please briefly describe or provide me with some link, I want to know
>> about the difference between squid running on Linux vs. squid running on
>> FreeBSD. In terms of reliability stability performance
> I don't see any pstability problems with any of those systems, however for
> performance linux has many advantages - threading (and therefore aufs, at
> least against FreeBSD 4) and many different filesystems.
> I'd choose linux.

I thought most people used diskd for performance, not aufs? Then,
threading is irrelevant.

I have good experience with Squid performance in FreeBSD, but I didn't
do any benchmarks against Linux.

Cheers,

-- 
Anders.
Received on Tue May 31 2005 - 05:01:33 MDT

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