On Wed, Mar 05, 2008, Michael Puckett wrote: > Mark Nottingham wrote: > > > >A killer app for -3 would be multi-core support (and the perf > >advantages that it would bring), or something else that the > >re-architecture makes possible that isn't easy in -2. AIUI, though, > >that isn't the case; i.e., -3 doesn't make this significantly easier. > Absolutely THE killer app for either -2 or -3. The fact that multi-core > processors are now the defacto standard in any box makes this more > important by the day IMHO. Being able to do sustained IO across multiple > Gb NICs will absolutely require it. This is the single biggest > performance enhancement that could be implemented. So where does > multi-core support fall on either roadmap? 12 months away on my draft Squid-2 roadmap, if there was enough commercial interest. Thing is, the Squid internals are very horrible for SMP (both 2 and 3) and the list of stuff that I've put into the squid-2 roadmap is what I think is the minimum amount of work required before really starting to take advantage of multiple cores. Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
