On Mon, Nov 27, 2006, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > something special in squid.conf or i can just install squid 2.6 and use > existing conf. Read the release notes - a handful of things changed. > do i need to clean spools? Nope. > i need to upgrade on live system In that case, disregard my suggestion to move to AUFS and stick with DiskD. Just compile Squid-2.6 with --enable-kqueue so you can use kqueue and save on CPU. Adrian > > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > >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 - > > > > -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - Hosting and Commercial Squid Support -
