[squid-users] AUFS vs. DISKS

Amos Jeffries squid3 at treenet.co.nz
Wed Jul 15 10:27:53 UTC 2015


On 15/07/2015 9:59 p.m., Stakres wrote:
> Yury,
> 
> you mean that having the DISKD 52 times slower then AUFS with linux OS is
> normal ?
> I cannot believe that, incredible !
> 
> I could understand the double or the triple, but here we're speaking about
> 50+ times... 

Yes. Exactly so.

The difference is threading:
 diskd has 1 I/O thread.
 AUFS has 64 I/O threads.

On a 1:1 thread comparison AUFS logics is very slightly slower, but in
aggregate its orders of magnitude faster.

Amos



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