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

From: Wojciech Puchar <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:17:32 +0100 (CET)

moved to squid 2.6 on other server, CPU load dropped from about 10% to
about 2%. quite nice.

question - does COSS work? or better not...

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> something special in squid.conf or i can just install squid 2.6 and use
> existing conf.
>
> do i need to clean spools?
>
> i need to upgrade on live system
>
> 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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>>
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