Re: [squid-users] ufs / aufs / diskd on linux

This FAQ entry is farily old. Any glibc-2.1.1 or later should be fine.
It is mostly the old "Linux libc 5" versions that are problematic, but
problems have also been seen with very early glibc versions.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

"Jesus M. Salvo Jr." wrote:
>
> I know this has been mentioned before ... that aufs ( or even diskd )
> gives better performance than ufs on linux.
>
> http://list.cineca.it/cgi-bin/wa?S2=squid&q=aufs+linux&s=&f=&a=&b=
>
> However, the FAQ still mentions that, in general, async I/O ( which I
> assume to mean aufs ) performs badly with linux ... although it mentions
> that it has to do with the version of glibc.
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-19.html#ss19.5
>
> What version of glibc is recommended? If I would switch to a 2.2.19
> kernel, will glibc-2.1.3 work better with aufs? Is this slowdown with
> aufs no longer an issue with glibc-2.2?
>
> Note: I have been running squid mainly on ufs on a test box.
Received on Sun Sep 23 2001 - 18:26:18 MDT