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

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> something special in squid.conf or i can just install squid 2.6 and use
> existing conf.

Read the release notes - a handful of things changed.

> do i need to clean spools?

Nope.

> i need to upgrade on live system

In that case, disregard my suggestion to move to AUFS and stick with DiskD.
Just compile Squid-2.6 with --enable-kqueue so you can use kqueue and
save on CPU.

Adrian

>
> 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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