Re: [squid-users] FreeBSD 4.3 & squid-2.3.STABLE4

hi!
thanks a lot Adrian ...
i didnt change anything while installing freebsd or mounting cache dir.
... so it will be the default ... i will try this and let you know ...

thanks again

-pranav

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On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001, Pranav A. Desai wrote:
> > Hi!
> > squid takes a long time ( a min or so ) to create the cache directories on
> > freebsd ... squid -z ... but its very fast on linux
> >
> > is it because there is something wrong with the OS setup or with squid
> > and the OS ...
> > i am doing some testing on squid ...where i need to clean the cache often
> > ... i know its not very crucial ... but it will be helpful if i know the
> > reason ...
>
> Depends. Have you mounted your cache direcories using softupdates?
>
> By default, FreeBSD's filesystems are mounted sync. Linux ext2fs
> is mounted async. If you set your cache filesystems to be mounted
> using softupdates (tunefs -n enable /cache when its unmounted, then
> remount) it'll speed things like squid -z up quite a bit.
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
>
Received on Fri Aug 17 2001 - 13:41:43 MDT