Re: [squid-users] Weird problem with Freebsd 6.0+Squid 2.5 Stable12+routers

> On Friday 13 January 2006 09:46, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > It is rumored pthreads on FreeBSD 5 should work fine for aufs, but I have
> > not verified this.

On 13.01 18:16, H wrote:
> do not know that either but long time I didn't tried this since diskd is
> giving me an excellent performance

aufs fhould give better, without need for tuning shmem segments...

> > aufs requires a pthreads implementation using kernel threads, allowing
> > multiple threads to be waiting for disk I/O to complete. It does not
> > work with user level threads where the whole process gets blocked if one
> > thread is blocked by disk I/O.

> that would be than the reason why Edinilson's squid stops working after
> some time when compiling with-pthreads
>
> I tried once with gnu-pthreads and some tweak but the performance wasn't
> good and I had no time so I left pthreads

the problem on FreeBSD 4 was that even if kernel did support threads, libc
did not. linuxthreads on FreeBSD 4 did support kernel-space threads, but not
posix threads from libc.

This problem does not apply to FreeBSD 5

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