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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTC.2005.12C.4.603

Performance Evaluation of Disk I/O for Web Proxy Servers  

Shim Jong-Ik (한서대학교 컴퓨터정보학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartC / v.12C, no.4, 2005 , pp. 603-608 More about this Journal
Abstract
Disk I/O is a major performance bottleneck of web proxy server. Today's most web proxy sowers are design to run on top of a general purpose file system. But general purpose file system can not efficiently handle web cache workload, small files, leading to the performance degradation of entire web proxy servers. In this paper we evaluate the performance potential of raw disk to reduce disk I/O overhead of web proxy servers. To show the performance potential of raw disk, we design a storage management system called Block-structured Storage Management System (BSMS). And we also actually implement web proxy server that incorporate BSMS in Squid. Comprehensive experimental evaluations show that raw disk can be a good solution to improve disk I/O performance significantly for web proxy servers.
Keywords
Internet; Web Proxy Servers; Caching; File System; Raw Disk;
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