On 13 Nov 2000, at 23:50, Duane Wessels <wessels@squid-cache.org> wrote:
> The rebuild process needs to be made faster, not slower!
absolutely.
> The swapin metadata MD5 and URL checks make sure that we don't swap
> in bogus data. I see these stat() calls as superfluous.
>
> I think what you want to do belongs more with the "validation"
> procedure. Better to start a background task that calls stat at
> a low rate if necessary, after the swap.state files have been fully
> read.
stat() would be much faster call if every L2 dir was touched only
once, that is we wish to sort the files we stat. I think this also
speeds up MD5/url validations. Sequential disk access and high dir
cache hitrate are the key.
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Andres Kroonmaa <andre@online.ee>
Delfi Online
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