From owner-freebsd-hackers  Tue Oct 28 10:52:07 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA11856
          for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:52:07 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers)
Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA11804
          for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:51:53 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from devet@adv.IAEhv.nl)
Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) 
          by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 16608
          on Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:51:41 GMT; id SAA16608
          efrom: devet@adv.IAEhv.nl; eto: hackers@freebsd.org
Received: (from devet@localhost)
	by adv.IAEhv.nl (8.8.5/8.8.6) id TAA08555;
	Tue, 28 Oct 1997 19:36:39 +0100 (CET)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 19:36:39 +0100 (CET)
From: Arjan de Vet <Arjan.deVet@adv.IAEhv.nl>
Message-Id: <199710281836.TAA08555@adv.IAEhv.nl>
To: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Squid and threads under FreeBSD
X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd.hackers
In-Reply-To: <199710280505.XAA03547@solaria.sol.net>
Organization: Internet Access Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

In article <199710280505.XAA03547@solaria.sol.net> you write:

>I've seen the AIO changes and they look promising, but I was wondering
>how much further things had progressed.
>
>I'm seriously examining the possibilty of running something like
>Cyclone from Highwind Software, for which threads are a requirement.
>Due to the I/O intensive nature of such a beast, the old pthreads
>stuff probably is not up to the challenge.

The same holds for the Squid proxy cache version 1.2 (currently in beta,
see ftp://squid.nlanr.net/pub/squid-1.2.beta).

It has AIO implemented with pthreads and I've tried running it with
libc_r.a on 2.2.5 but that fails miserably :-(. A native AIO implementation
would be nice especially for the open()ing of files because that takes
>50% of the time for one of the Squid caches I maintain during which other
connections just stop.

>Any recent developments?

I'm interested too and would like to test Squid 1.2 on FreeBSD with
threads and/or AIO. Is there a special FreeBSD mailinglist for this kind
of stuff?

Arjan