Martin Chandler wrote:
>
> I made the jump and upgraded to 2.4.STABLE2, and it seems for the moment
> to have taken care of my problem.
Good.
> My one question is about cache_dir file type.
> I compiled in support for async-io and diskd. I am assuming that these
> are different entities, and have read conflicting reports as to which is
> faster. Currently I am running with diskd.
The current view is
* For Linux and Solaris, async-io is faster
* For FreeBSD and many other OS:es, diskd is faster, and often async-io
isn't even usable.
diskd also requires some tuning of shared memory and message queues.
> Ah, one more question. Should the cache_replacement_policy and the
> memory_replacement_policy be the same?
Perfectly fine to have different cache and memory policies. This is why
there is two directives.
Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker
Received on Thu Oct 18 2001 - 02:11:52 MDT
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