It'll be faster, certainly - but poll/select will bite you once you start
really loading it down with concurrent connections.
Squid-3, in development at the moment, has support for event-drive IO
mechanisms (epoll, kqueue at the moment) which reduce that somewhat.
(Squid has inefficiencies in oth
I just read an old post about setting up a ram only squid server. What are
peoples experiences with this? I mean I really don't care if it has to
rebuild after a reboot I just want it to be FAST. If I could build a box
with say 3 gb ram and the only disk access was for logs, or even turn squid
log
I'm looking for sugested web sites that talk specifically about optimization
of squid. We have a server up and running but are building a new one. We
have read the man pages and have found a lot of helpful info on the squid
site, however there has to be someplace out there that discusses the effec