Re: tmpfs vs mfs

2014-05-06 Thread Loïc Blot
Hi, Thanks for your answers i'm using both memory caching and file caching, but if i use ffs or ffs2 (and optimization options), squid saturate the FS. The only solution i found is to use file caching on mfs. -- Best regards, Loïc BLOT, Engineering UNIX Systems, Security and Network Engineer

Re: tmpfs vs mfs

2014-05-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014/05/06 09:28, Janne Johansson wrote: > dd would perhaps not be the end goal for any memory filesystem, but the > major point is that when you remove files, tmpfs will (try to) return the > memory to the OS, where mfs will not. When used for things like port build directories or cvs /tmp, tm

Re: tmpfs vs mfs

2014-05-06 Thread Janne Johansson
dd would perhaps not be the end goal for any memory filesystem, but the major point is that when you remove files, tmpfs will (try to) return the memory to the OS, where mfs will not. 2014-05-06 8:28 GMT+02:00 Loïc Blot : > Hi @tech > i've migrated one of our squid server to OpenBSD 5.5 and i t

tmpfs vs mfs

2014-05-05 Thread Loïc Blot
Hi @tech i've migrated one of our squid server to OpenBSD 5.5 and i tested tmpfs. It works like a charm, great work, but i noticed than the mfs is faster than tmpfs. My benchs (with dd) are showing that tmpfs is slower than mfs. (/tmp: tmpfs | /var/squid/cache: mfs), i've done many dd to test it,