Hi all, If you've been following the blog (http://squidproxy.wordpress.com/) then you'll already know that: * A Squid-2.6.STABLE18 release candidate is out which fixes another potential crash situation; if you're running Squid-2.6 then please update to either the RC1 or the Stable release if/when its uploaded; * I've been asked "Why are you developing squid-2 when squid-3 is out?" and so I've posted some background and information about what I'm working on in my free time. * There's a comment there about Squid vs Varnish in the comments section. I'm happy to write up a better analysis of Squid vs Varnish, but in summary: = The varnish author is mostly right about Squid architecture; not surprising since its code roots are from the mid 90s; = Varnish is however very workload specific - fantastic for small object workloads which fit in RAM, but degrades very quickly for larger objects or very large data sets; = Some of the ideas phk has implemented in Varnish have been implemented in Squid-2 (my logging helper uses local sockets to pump data to a non-blocking helper, and under some OSes local sockets + page sized buffers == zero copy) = Some of the ideas phk has implemented in Varnish are making it into my Squid-2 development branch as time permits = He was paid to do Varnish; I'm doing this for free; this has implications on available time. :) Adrian
