Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 19:51:12 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: Arjan.deVet@adv.IAEhv.nl (Arjan de Vet) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Squid and threads under FreeBSD Message-ID: <199710290051.TAA26658@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199710281836.TAA08555@adv.IAEhv.nl> from Arjan de Vet at "Oct 28, 97 07:36:39 pm"
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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
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