Re: [squid-users] Opinions sought on best storage type for FreeBSD

On fre, 2007-08-10 at 11:24 -0300, Alexandre Correa wrote:
> using aufs works fine..
>
> my server receives about 4000 to 6000 req/min !!

quite modest load. Not a very high load.

> file system of hard disk is reiserfs4 !!
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> squid 32748 1.1 35.0 1493184 1446748 ? Sl Aug09 8:17 (squid) -D -s
>
> the server is very clean, running squid + QUAGGA/OSPF only... i/o loop
> using epoll..
>
> I thought because diskd has an external procces it uses more threads
> .. later i will make more tests using diskd and post the new results
> !!

diskd uses one single-threaded external process per cache_dir.

aufs uses posix threads for I/O, a number of them in parallell, number
increasing somewhat by the number of cache dirs..

Regards
Henrik