Re: Squid-3.2 status update

On 22/09/2011 07:27, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> SMP rock storage changes hit 3.2 in r11342 a few minutes ago. Expect
> some new bugs to arrive and some to die mysteriously.
>
> Thank you very much for the years of hard work and stress getting this
> to happen Alex.
>
> As I understand it so far (Alex will likely follow up and correct me on
> some of this);
>
> * installations with no workers are expected to only see small benefits
> via the existing storage code streamlining and bug fixes.
>
> * installations with workers will automatically get the SMP shared
> memory caching. This seems to be the newest most experimental of the
> whole update. So fair warning: expect new bugs in this area.
>
> * installations choosing to explicitly configure "rock" cache_dir type
> get that. This is the older part with prior production use as a 3.1
> branch. Some changes made for SMP support. So a potential risk of new
> bugs, but hopefully not very many.
>
> Project details are http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/RockStore.
> Although lacking config how-to at present.
>
>
> This marks the end of the feature additions to 3.2 (StringNG is a
> performance boost which may still happen in the background later).
> The main focus now is on bugs, bugs, performance, polishing up, and did
> I mention the 291 bugs? before we can call it "stable".
>
> The next formal package will be in ~10 days at the regular end of month
> packaging. Lets see how good we can all make it.
>
>
> Also, we have to decide now whether or not to drop COSS support from
> 3.2. Given that rock storage fills the same architectural niche of
> efficient in-memory disk backed persistent storage for small objects on
> high performance systems.
>
> Votes please? (if you want to keep it please say why)
>
>
> Amos
i have never used COSS and i dont know how to use it.
never seen the real need of it while squid is working perfectly with
other systems.
also i know a very very big system based on squid that my friend built
and it's not working on COSS.

Regards
Eliezer
Received on Thu Sep 22 2011 - 05:07:18 MDT