Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:51:30 +0100 From: "Johan Hendriks" <Johan@double-l.nl> To: "Christopher Sean Hilton" <chris@vindaloo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Does softupdate help squid ? Message-ID: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB5DDCA8@w2003s01.double-l.local> References: <47DE312E.2030209@esiee.fr> <AFEDF01E-ECB0-43E9-9F64-E678FA88E644@vindaloo.com>
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Squid is a forward proxy whereas varnish is just a reverse proxy So you can not use it for for lan to wan proxy! Regards, Johan -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] Namens Christopher Sean Hilton Verzonden: maandag 17 maart 2008 12:41 Aan: Frank Bonnet Onderwerp: Re: Does softupdate help squid ? On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:51 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm setting up a squid cache (3.0.2) machine FreeBSD 7.0 based and I =20 > wonder > if softupdates could help (make it faster ) or not the cache =20 > partition ? > I can't imagine that it would hurt. Last I looked though squid may not =20 be the best tool for this job. Poul Henning-Kamp has written an http =20 accelerator called varnish. I'll start by saying that implementing varnish is on list of things to =20 do so my experience is purely anecdotal. No that I've said that, the =20 feature that grabbed my attention was the fact that it's written to =20 modern unix. If I understand what I read correctly this means that =20 varnish eschews squids separation of the cache into a fast cache in =20 memory and a slow cache on disk. Instead varnish uses a big memory =20 mapped file allowing the operating system to manage which cache =20 objects are in memory and which ones are on disk. On FreeBSD at least =20 that would seem to me to be a bigger performance win than softupdates. -- Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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