On Mon, Nov 27, 2006, Manoj Rajkarnikar wrote: > Ah.. yes.. the third cache which show only 3% CPU usage has squid v2.6. > Is this drop in cpu usage due to changes in v2.6?? I'll definitely want to > upgrade to 2.6 now. and one more, what is epoll about ?? configure help > only says "enable epoll() instead of poll() or select(), epoll() is best > where avialable". what does that mean ?? Some work went into Squid-2.6 to improve CPU efficiency but by far the biggest user of CPU in previous squid versions was the poll/select system calls. epoll/kqueue are much more efficient than poll/select. Hence why we say you should use them. :) > Thanks alot for your response adrian. I'll soon be planing the upgrade of > the squids from 2.5 to 2.6. Good move! Let us know if you have any further trouble. Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - Hosting and Commercial Squid Support -
