It'll be faster, certainly - but poll/select will bite you once you start really loading it down with concurrent connections.
Squid-3, in development at the moment, has support for event-drive IO mechanisms (epoll, kqueue at the moment) which reduce that somewhat. (Squid has inefficiencies in other areas which we're working on.) adrian On Mon, Mar 24, 2003, neil lawrence wrote: > I just read an old post about setting up a ram only squid server. What are > peoples experiences with this? I mean I really don't care if it has to > rebuild after a reboot I just want it to be FAST. If I could build a box > with say 3 gb ram and the only disk access was for logs, or even turn squid > logging off I can imagine some awesome preformance. > > thoughts? > > Thanks > > > > ------------------------ANNOUNCEMENT----------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ISPCON Spring 2003 April 23-25, Baltimore, MD > ============================================= > The Definitive Event for the Wired and Wireless ISP > Visit www.ispcon.com and register today! > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ____________ The ISP-CACHING Discussion List ___________ > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-caching/archives/ -- Adrian Chadd "It shouldn't take an hour and a half for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "any woman to take a bath." - Captain Jerk, Women and .. ------------------------ANNOUNCEMENT----------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPCON Spring 2003 April 23-25, Baltimore, MD ============================================= The Definitive Event for the Wired and Wireless ISP Visit www.ispcon.com and register today! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ____________ The ISP-CACHING Discussion List ___________ To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-caching/archives/
