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

Sure.

Thanks alot again.

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.
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> Adrian
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