RE: Squid is slower on FreeBSD 3.x?

we are running 3.4 Freebsd with Squid 2.4 Dev 1 and we get 1700 request per minute mind you we are using Diskd since it was a better and more stable solution that the original file system.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mustafa N. Deeb [mailto:mustafa@palnet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 5:05 PM
To: SO Kwok Tsun
Cc: Chris Dillon; squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: Re: Squid is slower on FreeBSD 3.x?

how do you know, what is the limit of your machine?

SO Kwok Tsun wrote:

> Yes, all of the proxy servers' cache filesystems are either mounted as
> async or soft-update. I also notice that those FreeBSD 3.4 machines
> have much worse response time when the number of request is higher than
> 1400 per minute. The one with FreeBSD 2.2 is still very happy to serve
> over 2000 request per minute. How about yours? I am afraid that ours
> just hit the limit? ;-(
>
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:01:37AM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, SO Kwok Tsun wrote:
> >
> > > It seems to be something related to disk io. Are there something
> > > special in FreeBSD 3.x? Do anyone have similar observation?
> > > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Do you have the cache filesystems on the FreeBSD 2.2.x boxes mounted
> > async? If so, you will need to do the same on the 3.x boxes, or use
> > SoftUpdates, which is an even safer/better solution. By the way,
> > FreeBSD 3.5 is now available, as well as 4.0. 4.1 will be released
> > shortly. I have been running Squid on FreeBSD 3.3 up to 3.5-STABLE
> > and now on 4.1 without any problems.
> >
> >
> > -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
> > FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
> > For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org )
> >
Received on Thu Jul 20 2000 - 04:15:10 MDT