Re: High number of context switches.

[Henrik Nordstrom]

Patrick Mau wrote:

> Just a small question. 'vmstat' shows a really high number of context
> switches per second when squid is build with pthreads and async-io.

Quite normal. It is how it works. Squid makes far from perfect use of
threads when using async-io (quickly dispatching ingle I/O operations to
threads, requiring about 2 context switches per I/O operation).

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker