Re: [squid-users] Stability problems with diskd in Squid 2.6

Anders Nordby wrote:
> I am using diskd, with 5 cache dirs on each server (each dir containing
> quite a lot of directories). If I turn off diskd and use plain ufs cache
> dirs, the instabilitity problem goes away, but then the servers become
> very slow to respond. :-( Which I/we can not live with. As 2.6 is
> supposed to be faster than 2.5 because of kqueue, downgrading doesn't
> seem like a good option either.

Funny thing. I had trouble with squid segfaulting in some versions with
diskd. Now with 2.5stable13 it works fine. Maybe try this flavour.

BTW: does BSD have SMP-aware threads? if yes aufs should perform well
(correct me if I am wrong anywhere).

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