Re: Performance issues(Linux Filesystems) (fwd)

I remember someone saying that they would like it if interesting
squid-users messages were forwarded here.

Simon Amor wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Performance issues(Linux Filesystems)
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> Oskar Pearson wrote:
> >
> > > ->Is anyone developing some kind of "Multimedia Filesystem" for Linux,
> > > thinking in squid as a potential use ??
> > hmm - there were thoughts about creating a "huge file" that had it's
> > own internal squid-specific structure to get around the lag that you
> > get when you "open" and "close" files... there were various problems
> > with this...
>
> DNEWS (a caching news proxy with prefetching etc) stores the news
> spool in larger files than INN by putting about 100 articles into
> each file - I don't know anything else about how it works, but I
> guess this sort of thing might work with squid. You'd have to have
> some kind of indexing function so that information from the same site
> was stored in one file and squid kept say 10-15 files open at any one
> time, closing the least recently used when it had to open another.
>
> Just an idea, I'd not fancy implementing it.
>
> Simon
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        Oskar
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