Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:45:39 +0200 | From | Erik Corry <> | Subject | Re: Thread implementations... |
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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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