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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Squid and threads under FreeBSD
In-Reply-To: <199710281836.TAA08555@adv.IAEhv.nl> from Arjan de Vet at "Oct 28, 97 07:36:39 pm"
To: Arjan.deVet@adv.IAEhv.nl (Arjan de Vet)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 19:51:12 -0500 (EST)
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Arjan de Vet said:
> 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?
> 
I *almost* have a native AIO working.  If I don't get interrupted, it'll
be in -current for non-SMP only tomorrow.

-- 
John
dyson@freebsd.org
jdyson@nc.com