RE: Sequential sever? 2.3 with async I/O quite stable

I'm running squid 2.3DEVEL2 Async I/O with all available patches for a few
weeks already. It seems very stable. That is, it doesn't crash (at least one
of my machines is up already for 2 weeks... :-) The other, identical one,
restarts so now and then (once every 2-3 days / but then 2.2STABLE4 did that
as well :-), but causing no disruption... I like the performance of 2.3
Async I/O... easily handles 600 hits/min...

Both Running Linux 2.2.12, on 256M memory and 3 x 6Gb IDE harddisk on a
Pentium Pro 200 (CPU overkill)...

Walter Klomp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hno@hem.passagen.se [mailto:hno@hem.passagen.se]
> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 9:31 PM
> To: David J N Begley
> Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Re: Sequential sever?
>
>
> David J N Begley wrote:
>
> > So.. if Squid/2.2.STABLE5 running async-io is "acceptably stable" for a
> > production proxy cache, would you recommend people *not*
> install Squid/2.3
> > (when released) until such time as a replacement for async-io is made
> > production-ready?
>
> async-io in 2.3 may perform somewhat like a unpatched 2.2.STABLE4 (if
> all new bugs get pruned out in time that is). However, many of my
> current async-io improvements will not be ported to 2.3.
>
> You should at least try it in a test system (with load) before deploying
> it in a main production cache. The store I/O routines in Squid 2.3 is
> quite redesigned, and not that many people are working on or testing the
> async-io code in 2.3.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Spare time Squid hacker
>
Received on Sun Oct 03 1999 - 22:16:43 MDT