RE: benchmarking squid on solaris/x86

From: Robert Collins <robert.collins@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:05:11 +1100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grahame Bowland [mailto:grahame@ucs.uwa.edu.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:01 PM

> Squid does lots of fork() calls doesn't it? fork() is pretty
> expensive on solaris, the whole platform is geared towards
> threads and light-weight-processes.

No. Squid does exactly two fork calls by default. One to become a
daemon, and one to create a child that does _all_ the work - it uses a
non-blocking poll/select loop.

Rob
Received on Wed Mar 20 2002 - 03:05:21 MST

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