The root cause of why admins configure SMP + [A]UFS is the lack of good
documentation.
A few lines in the wiki and squid.conf.documented should be enough.
Marcus
On 19/03/17 06:11, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
I think that some warning message like "WARNING: be sure you know that UFS\AUFS
doesn't support SMP\MultiWorkers" should be added to the stderr or cache.log.
Eliezer
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From: squid-users [mailto:squid-users-boun...@lists.squid-cache.org] On Behalf
Of senor
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2017 7:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [squid-users] SMP and AUFS
On 3/17/2017 7:45, Alex Rousskov wrote:
On 03/16/2017 10:42 PM, senor wrote:
I understand that AUFS is not SMP aware but if each worker has its own
AUFS cache is there any problem other than the inefficiencies of
duplicate cache?
Yes. Clients may get stale cached entries, possibly breaking advanced
HTTP transactions that rely on a more-or-less compliant proxy cache.
Also, I do not know exactly how local and shared cache indexes interact
when SMP-unaware store updates its local index without updating the
shared one. Most likely, such partial updates lead to bugs. You may
reduce bugs probability by not mixing shared and ufs-based stores in SMP
mode, but I doubt you can eliminate all problems that way.
I'm pretty sure that AUFS is used with squid running in SMP mode a lot.
I can think of many examples where a lot of people do things they should
not be doing and do not do things they should be doing. Just because
many use X to solve some problem, does not make using X a good idea and
certainly does not make it the best solution available.
The squid wiki even has a CARP configuration example for this combination.
I hope there are no official examples advertising SMP AUFS
configurations. If there are, they should be removed IMO.
Alex.
There are many references in the squid wiki, FAQ and Knowlegebase about
SMP but I don't see any of them reflecting the concerns you have brought
up. My point in mentioning that there are a lot of installations using
SMP and AUFS is that something widely used but buggy tends to be brought
up on this email list and I haven't seen it.
I'm not trying to claim there are no problems. I'm just making sure my
expectations are realistic. Your comments were the first I became aware
anyone thought poorly about the combination of AUFS with SMP. Rock is of
course preferred but it comes with more baggage than AUFS. My own
experience has been pretty good. Maybe just lucky.
Senor
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