as far as I know, thread mechanism in linux and solaris are different.
instead of "diskd" you can compile squid with --enable-async-io=32 I am
sure that you will get a better performance with this option.
dont forget to change ufs to aufs in cache_dir directive in squid.conf
Mahmoud Taghizadeh
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Peter Arnold wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been working with squid for some time on low end x86/solaris platform.
> I concocted a really slick config on that worked well to impress the powers
> that be such that bought some new IBM PIII/1.13Ghz 512Mb etc etc to replace
> the solaris X86 P200 128Mb etc... woopee! except they wanted Redhat because
> IBM support redhat....
>
> Anyway we have a url we can access that indicates download speed and for
> some reason the solis box ALWAYS leaves the Redhat box for dead....1500Kbps
> vs 200-300Kbps
>
> The same speed applies for the bundled version of Squid in Redhat that is
> 2.4S1.
>
> I recompiled the exact same versions on solaris as redhat with the same
> options....
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/squid-2.5 '--enable-storeio=ufs diskd null' --
> enable-icmp --enable-delay-pools --enable-useragent-log --enable-
> referer-log --enable-snmp --enable-underscores '--enable-auth=basic ntlm' '-
> -enable-basic-auth-helpers=PAM' --enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=NTLMSSP
> except I included LDAP in the helpers on redhat
> Squid is configured on both with a null cache_dir but otherwise is pretty
> stock standard.
> Solaris/Sqiuid still wins by a factor of 5!
>
> Is there any trick to Squid on Redhat that I should know about? Can anyone
> offer any advice on trouble shooting this?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Peter Arnold
>
>
Received on Sun Jun 30 2002 - 00:45:48 MDT
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