Re: [squid-users] squid with FreeBSD 6.0 tuning

From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:32:01 +0100 (CET)

something special in squid.conf or i can just install squid 2.6 and use
existing conf.

do i need to clean spools?

i need to upgrade on live system

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006, Manoj Rajkarnikar wrote:
>> Ah.. yes.. the third cache which show only 3% CPU usage has squid v2.6.
>> Is this drop in cpu usage due to changes in v2.6?? I'll definitely want to
>> upgrade to 2.6 now. and one more, what is epoll about ?? configure help
>> only says "enable epoll() instead of poll() or select(), epoll() is best
>> where avialable". what does that mean ??
>
> Some work went into Squid-2.6 to improve CPU efficiency but by far the biggest
> user of CPU in previous squid versions was the poll/select system calls.
> epoll/kqueue are much more efficient than poll/select. Hence why we say
> you should use them. :)
>
>> Thanks alot for your response adrian. I'll soon be planing the upgrade of
>> the squids from 2.5 to 2.6.
>
> Good move! Let us know if you have any further trouble.
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
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