[isp-caching] Re: ram only squid

2003-03-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
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

[isp-caching] ram only squid

2003-03-24 Thread neil lawrence
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

[isp-caching] squid optimization.

2003-03-24 Thread neil lawrence
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