Re: Your opinion on a http accelerator

jb@dslreports.com wrote:

> Normally keep-alive is disabled for apache+mod_perl (when no squid
> is used) because nobody can afford the space to keep larger httpds
> lingering for subsequent requests: your server-status soon
> fills up with "Ks". Does squid avoid this problem?

Yes. Squid makes efficient use of persistent connections. Persistency is
a hop-by-hop property, so Squid opens as many connections as it needs to
serve the number of concurrent requests (not connections) there is from
the users.

> Finally, is there any risk in changing READ_AHEAD_GAP to 48k
> and recompiling?

I See no problem.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker