Re: squid-1.2.beta13 available

"Andres Kroonmaa" writes:

>> >> Changes to squid-1.2.beta13 (Feb 4, 1998):
>> >>
>> >> - #defining MONOTONIC_STORE will support the creation of disk
>> >> objects clustered into directories. This GREATLY improves disk
>> >> performance (factor of 3) over old `write-over-old-object'
>> >> method. If using the MONOTONIC_STORE, the
>> >> {get/put}_unusedFileno stack stuff is disabled. This is
>> >> actually a good thing and greatly reduces the risk of serving
>> >> up bad objects (SLF).
>> >
>> > err, wanted to take a look at it, grepped MONO on all tree, found zero
>> > matches. Where is it? beta14 also hasn't it included...
>>
>> Its the default. I added stewarts notes to ChangeLog before I
>> made it default and took out all the ifdefs.
>
> I see. Can you comment briefly on what it does? What is meant by
> "objects clustered into directories" ? And why is it good to drop
> unused files cache?
>
> Or, if you have SLF patches, bounce them to me, please. (its tough to
> find the diffs in main tree now..)

It changes the order in which new swapfiles are placed into
the directories.

OLD

        cache/00/00/00000000
        cache/01/00/00000001
        cache/02/00/00000002
        cache/03/00/00000003

NEW

        cache/00/00/00000000
        cache/00/00/00000001
        cache/00/00/00000002
        cache/00/00/00000003
        

Duane W.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:46 MDT