[Fwd: Re: epoll on squid]

I still had not heard a reply back about my question.

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> From: David Nicklay <dnicklay@web.turner.com>
> To: squid-dev@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: epoll on squid
> Date: 28 Jan 2003 11:57:55 -0500
>
>
> The patch for closing connections has been commited to the epoll branch.
>
> Incidentally, what would it take for epoll to be considered for
> inclusion into HEAD now? I noticed that kqueue is still missing the two
> things that were stated that comm_epoll.cc needed (see below):
>
>
> from comm_kqueue.cc:
> /*
> * XXX Currently not implemented / supported by this module XXX
> *
> * - delay pools
> * - deferred reads
> *
> * So, its not entirely useful in a production setup since if a read
> * is meant to be deferred it isn't (we're not even throwing the event
> * away here). Eventually the rest of the code will be rewritten
> * so deferred reads aren't required.
> * -- adrian
> */
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 17:22, David Nicklay wrote:
> >
> > I finally got a test box for me to work on again. It is a single CPU
> > 1GHz Pentium III with 2 GB RAM, stock Redhat-7.2 + linux-2.5.59.
> > Running squid-3.0-devel using the epoll branch and an added patch to
> > close connections in epoll, I was able to get 1917 requests per second
> > on i.cnn.net.
> >
> > This is a substantial improvement over my previous test on this box with
> > linux-2.4.9 running squid-2.5.STABLE1. In that test I only got 1333
> > requests per second. Unfortunately, there are too many variables for me
> > to attribute the increase in performance to squid-3, the new kernel, or
> > the epoll patch. I will try running another test to isolate it if I
> > can.
> >
> > The patch for closing connections in epoll is forthcoming this week.
> >
> > --
> > David Nicklay
> > Location: CNN Center - SE0811A
> > Office: 404-827-2698 Cell: 404-545-6218
> --
> David Nicklay
> Location: CNN Center - SE0811A
> Office: 404-827-2698 Cell: 404-545-6218

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