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SubjectRe: Thread implementations...
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 04:18:58PM -0400, linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:
> Erik Corry:
> > Possibly. But according to Squid's own doc, the primary problems
> > in Squid performance are
> >
> > 1) Not enough memory
> > 2) Too slow disks
>
> Umm, sendfile would make disk access faster because it could stop alot of
> unneeded copying.

No, because you are waiting for the disk hardware. Seek time,
rotation time, transfer time, SCSI/IDE bus contention. Nothing
to do with memcpy().

Read the URL, here it is again:

http://cache.is.co.za/squid/opt/performance.html

I think sendfile or something else that's just as fast would be
cool, but I don't believe it's something a lot of people really
need.

--
Erik Corry

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