Re: [squid-users] tuning squid 2.3/2.4 on a slow connection

Sometime I heard that squid has it's own filesystem (squidfs or something
like that) and as I remember there was a release containing that feature.
what happened to that filesystem?

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Babak Farrokhi
Network Administrator
Planet Networks,Inc.
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, fooler wrote:
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001, Babak Farrokhi wrote:
> > > Dear Joe,
> > >
> > > I already read your articles on optimizing squid. That's great. But
> > > unfortunately that's LINUX specific and many parts of it does not apply on
> > > BSD flavours. And I know most of web caching appliances are using Squid
> > > inside. I personally have experience with Cisco 505, Cobalt and MS ISA
> > > Server.
> > > But I think Cisco is faster. What a user expects from a cache is flashing
> > > web page on browser! But after applying lots of patches from various sites
> > > and reading lots of articles, and working on squid for more than 2 years,
> > > we do not have that performance that expected.
> > > I am going to launch a web site about tuning squid on FreeBSD to get the
> > > best performance, and also a mail list about squid performance. It will be
> > > available very soon and I will send introduction email to this list, very
> > > soon. All comments and suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > If you do this, please look at working with Joe to incorporate it
> > into a big document. That way, one of us squid guys can nab it and
> > place it on the squid website when its (semi-)-mature.
> >
> > Yes, the cisco web cache is faster. Again, realise that squid
> > development right now is being one by volunteers who aren't
> > paid to (mainly) work on squid. This is why development is currently
> > a little 'bursty', as it happens when one of us gets some spare
> > time (ie holidays that we happen to have a computer nearby. :-)
> >
> > You'll find that we know what we need to do to squid and the various
> > *nix kernels in order to squeeze high-end performance out of a webcache.
> > However, we just don't have the time.
> >
> > Adrian
>
> no matter how you tweak and optimize the same old architecture of a given OS,
> still squid req/sec throughput will not significantly increase. squid bottleneck
> is the disk i/o and you have to develop a new technique/algorithm to improve
> disk i/o. adrian did the right thing to improve disk i/o performance, he is
> working right now with his IFS. i believe this will significantly increase the
> req/sec throughput of squid.
>
> for more info about his latest work, click this url:
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/ifs/
>
> oh btw adrian, when is the tentative date to release your IFS? :->
>
> fooler.
>
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