[squid-users] Squid 2.6 + COSS comparison

Hi everyone,

The COSS code in Squid-2.6 has come quite far from its original design by
Eric Stern. Steven Wilton has put an enormous amount of effort into the
COSS design to fix the remaining bugs and dramatically improve its
performance.

I've assembled a quick webpage showing the drop in CPU usage and the
negligible effect on hit-rate. Steven Wilton provided the statistics
from two Squid caches he administers.

You can find it here - http://www.squid-cache.org/~adrian/coss/.
Steven is running a recent snapshot of squid-2.6. The latest -STABLE
release of Squid-2.6 doesn't incorporate all of the COSS bugfixes
(and there's at least one really nasty bug!) so if you're interested
in trying COSS out please grab the latest Squid-2.6 snapshot from
the website.

Adrian
Received on Mon Sep 18 2006 - 20:11:57 MDT