[squid-users] security_file_certgen I/O

[Alex Rousskov]

On 12/1/21 1:55 PM, Jason Spashett wrote:

> We have found that the certificate helpers perform strictly worse with
> the disk cache turned on, over approximately 3 processes. It is
> something that perhaps one day, with luck, we may be able to
> contribute something. The problems are the way in which the disk cache
> is stored and accessed.

Yes, there are many potential optimizations in that area. I hope these
performance problems can be reduced _without Squid code modifications_
by using RAM-based filesystems and/or multiple certificate databases
(e.g., one helper/database for each two workers).

Alex.