<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The test was taken on low-end machine.
Compared with nowdays hdd I had very, very small disk, so test couldn't
be long. It took nearly 500 minutes. It's to short time to let cron jobs
to affect results. Besides there wasn't defined any jobs in cron and Squid
logging was disabled. If it was related to Squid filling up what caused
that peaks? I don't know details on how COSS works but at first moment
I thought that it could be caused by writting data from stripe in memory
into disk. But default size of stripe is 1 MB, so peaks would take place
more, more frequently. I still have no idea what was the casue of peaks
in trace. Where I can find documentation about COSS module?</font>
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Piotr Kadziolka wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
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> Some time ago I've made series of tests on Squid-2.5STABLE5. I wanted<br>
> confirm and verify results obtained by Duane Wessels in his book about<br>
> Squid. Duane measured how Squid performace can depends on filesystem<br>
> performance. I took all tests on the same machine in identical<br>
> environment but I obtained strange results for COSS (coss.png).<br>
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> Could someone interpret this results? Is anyone who can give me<br>
> explaination about this periodical peak in response time? Adjustment<br>
> algorithm in the workload (attached file pm4-pf2.pg) take care about<br>
> misses and hits and take action when value exceeds or fell below,<br>
> respectively, 3.0 and 0.25 sec. At second image (diskd.png) which
contains<br>
> trace for diskd there is no similar peak.<br>
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Whats the time span of the test? Any chance that they could be<br>
caused by some daily cron job? But then you'd kind of expect to<br>
see the effect in the diskd data too. Also the way that the peaks<br>
take longer to decay make me think that its related to Squid filling<br>
up rather than a system cron job.<br>
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Duane W.<br>
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