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Hi Leongmzlist,
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:57:17 -0700
leongmzlist <leongmzlist@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The list has been very quiet w/ regards to the coss storage.
> 
> 1. is it still being developed/maintained?
> 2. is it production ready?
I am using COSS for some of my FreeBSD Squid proxy servers. The reason why I chose the COSS storage scheme was because DISKD kept on crashing repeatedly under high load (150 - 200 req/sec). 
I have to say that it's quite stable. Squid hasn't crashed in last 35 days since I deployed COSS in it. 
It seems quite fast too keeping in mind that we have a satellite link. 
Below are some of stats after deploying COSS in one of my proxies:
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root# squidclient mgr:info
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: squid
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:00:43 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain
Expires: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:00:43 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:00:43 GMT
X-Cache: MISS from cache2-server
X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from cache2-server:3128
Via: 1.0 cache2-server:3128 (squid)
Proxy-Connection: close
Squid Object Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE14
Start Time:     Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:24:34 GMT
Current Time:   Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:00:43 GMT
Connection information for squid:
        Number of clients accessing cache:      4168
        Number of HTTP requests received:       173803166
        Number of ICP messages received:        1090974817
        Number of ICP messages sent:    1095742664
        Number of queued ICP replies:   9
        Request failure ratio:   0.00
        Average HTTP requests per minute since start:   3573.5
        Average ICP messages per minute since start:    -43347.4
        Select loop called: -1251324801 times, -2.332 ms avg
Cache information for squid:
        Request Hit Ratios:     5min: 50.6%, 60min: 50.2%
        Byte Hit Ratios:        5min: 27.6%, 60min: 29.1%
        Request Memory Hit Ratios:      5min: 0.0%, 60min: 0.0%
        Request Disk Hit Ratios:        5min: 74.3%, 60min: 74.7%
        Storage Swap size:      11074963 KB
        Storage Mem size:       124912 KB
        Mean Object Size:       9.27 KB
        Requests given to unlinkd:      0
Median Service Times (seconds)  5 min    60 min:
        HTTP Requests (All):   0.04047  0.10281
        Cache Misses:          1.46131  1.46131
        Cache Hits:            0.00091  0.00091
        Near Hits:             1.17732  1.17732
        Not-Modified Replies:  0.00091  0.00091
        DNS Lookups:           0.06083  0.06364
        ICP Queries:           0.00102  0.00108
Resource usage for squid:
        UP Time:        2918169.381 seconds
        CPU Time:       325875.751 seconds
        CPU Usage:      11.17%
        CPU Usage, 5 minute avg:        23.26%
        CPU Usage, 60 minute avg:       25.13%
        Process Data Segment Size via sbrk(): 789776 KB
        Maximum Resident Size: 637880 KB
        Page faults with physical i/o: 871
Memory accounted for:
        Total accounted:       439005 KB
        memPoolAlloc calls: 2618284649
        memPoolFree calls: 2613332187
File descriptor usage for squid:
        Maximum number of file descriptors:   8192
        Largest file desc currently in use:   1969
        Number of file desc currently in use: 1583
        Files queued for open:                   0
        Available number of file descriptors: 6609
        Reserved number of file descriptors:   100
        Store Disk files open:                   0
        IO loop method:                     kqueue
Internal Data Structures:
        1195109 StoreEntries
           741 StoreEntries with MemObjects
            40 Hot Object Cache Items
        1194406 on-disk objects
The reason there is high number of page faults is due to 2 long outages we had last month!.
I am also a little puzzled by the negative values of the Select loop called!
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root# squidclient mgr:storedir
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: squid
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:07:02 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain
Expires: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:07:02 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:07:02 GMT
X-Cache: MISS from cache2-server
X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from cache2-server:3128
Via: 1.0 cache2-server:3128 (squid)
Proxy-Connection: close
Store Directory Statistics:
Store Entries          : 1195347
Maximum Swap Size      : 12582912 KB
Current Store Swap Size: 11073264 KB
Current Capacity       : 88% used, 12% free
Store Directory #0 (coss): /cache1/squid/coss
FS Block Size 1024 Bytes
Maximum Size: 6291456 KB
Current Size: 5536468 KB
Percent Used: 88.00%
Current load metric: 0 / 1000
Number of object collisions: 2
Flags:
Pending Relocations: 0
Stripe: 1180, lockcount: 0, numobjects 40, flags: NOTFULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,DISK
Stripe: 1, lockcount: 4, numobjects 204, flags: NOTFULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 1178, lockcount: 1, numobjects 124, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,DISK
Stripe: 11, lockcount: 1, numobjects 190, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 8, lockcount: 1, numobjects 189, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 4, lockcount: 1, numobjects 175, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 6, lockcount: 1, numobjects 175, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 1161, lockcount: 1, numobjects 121, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,DISK
Stripe: 2, lockcount: 1, numobjects 145, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 5, lockcount: 1, numobjects 182, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 0, lockcount: 1, numobjects 135, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Pending Relocations:
Accepted object sizes: 0 - 131072 bytes
Store Directory #1 (coss): /cache2/squid/coss
FS Block Size 1024 Bytes
Maximum Size: 6291456 KB
Current Size: 5536796 KB
Percent Used: 88.01%
Current load metric: 0 / 1000
Number of object collisions: 3
Flags:
Pending Relocations: 1
Stripe: 13, lockcount: 5, numobjects 142, flags: NOTFULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 12, lockcount: 2, numobjects 132, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 6, lockcount: 1, numobjects 134, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 4, lockcount: 3, numobjects 122, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 4261, lockcount: 0, numobjects 117, flags: NOTFULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,DISK
Stripe: 11, lockcount: 1, numobjects 149, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 10, lockcount: 1, numobjects 154, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 7, lockcount: 1, numobjects 156, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 5, lockcount: 1, numobjects 138, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 0, lockcount: 2, numobjects 116, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 2, lockcount: 1, numobjects 113, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 8, lockcount: 1, numobjects 120, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 1, lockcount: 1, numobjects 159, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Stripe: 9, lockcount: 1, numobjects 129, flags: FULL,NOTWRITING,NOTWRITTEN,MEMONLY
Pending Relocations:
  Stripe: 3968   Number: 1
Accepted object sizes: 0 - 131072 bytes
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squidclient mgr:5min | grep client
client_http.requests = 142.789173/sec
client_http.hits = 72.886244/sec
client_http.errors = 0.000000/sec
client_http.kbytes_in = 104.722727/sec
client_http.kbytes_out = 1241.499474/sec
client_http.all_median_svc_time = 0.036222 seconds
client_http.miss_median_svc_time = 1.542425 seconds
client_http.nm_median_svc_time = 0.000911 seconds
client_http.nh_median_svc_time = 1.177316 seconds
client_http.hit_median_svc_time = 0.000911 seconds
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I need further suggestions to refine and fine-tune COSS for my systems.
I appreciate suggestions from anybody regarding my stats above.
I definitely hope that COSS will become better in the future.
Thanking you...
> 
> mike
> 
> 
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With best regards and good wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Tek Bahadur Limbu
System Administrator 
(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department
Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Jawalakhel, Nepal
http://wlink.com.np/
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