Re: [squid-users] squid with FreeBSD 6.0 tuning

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:26:05 +0800

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006, Manoj Rajkarnikar wrote:
> Ah.. yes.. the third cache which show only 3% CPU usage has squid v2.6.
> Is this drop in cpu usage due to changes in v2.6?? I'll definitely want to
> upgrade to 2.6 now. and one more, what is epoll about ?? configure help
> only says "enable epoll() instead of poll() or select(), epoll() is best
> where avialable". what does that mean ??

Some work went into Squid-2.6 to improve CPU efficiency but by far the biggest
user of CPU in previous squid versions was the poll/select system calls.
epoll/kqueue are much more efficient than poll/select. Hence why we say
you should use them. :)

> Thanks alot for your response adrian. I'll soon be planing the upgrade of
> the squids from 2.5 to 2.6.

Good move! Let us know if you have any further trouble.

Adrian

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