On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Michal Mihalik wrote:
A big quietion is how much will help to move to 2.6.x kernel. and if the answer is 10%, the next question is I NEED MORE :-) how... please.
The big win for 2.6 would probably be that it has epoll support, allowing you to experiment with using epoll instead of poll to reduce CPU usage when there is many open filedescriptors.
epoll support for Squid exists in squid-3 and as a patch to squid-2.5 at devel.squid-cache.org
Regards Henrik