Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:20:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: Notebooks |
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Squid is just a big select look that does ALOT of file IO and makes alot of directories..
On 16 Aug 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <m0z88bh-000aNFC@the-village.bc.nu>, > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > >Squid on 2.1.115 (with or without ac1) lasts 60 seconds on my soak test > >before it explodes. Ditto a lot of other high load tests that touch I/O > >or VM hard. (Note Im guessing where it dies here). Some of 2.1.x is rock > >solid, and some bits of it are solid in non extreme use, but 2.1.x is > >not remotely stable for real world hard use yet. Its getting there bit > >by bit > > Does squid use threads? That's one of the things I've found so far and > is fixed in pre-116-2 (which is very rough btw, but it was meant to be a > debug release rather than anything else) > > Can you send me your squid setup, btw? I've been trying to get something > to explode for the last week or so, and I don't have anything that is > even remotely reproducible. I fixed a few bad user ID leaks in fork(), > but they "only" resulted in one user not being able to fork ever again, > and weren't the problem I am chasing. > > The other thing I fixed was some really bad stuff with threads exiting > at the same time and screwing over badly in some cases (freeing the fs > struct twice or not freeing it at all). That requires some really bad > luck though (I've certainly never seen it happen, but looking at the > sources it was obvious that it could happen), but it's also fixed in > 2.1.116-2. Which is why I wonder whether squid might be using threads.. > > Linus > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html >
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