Re: Merge Window Closing Announcement for Core Update 127

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hi,

> On 13 Jan 2019, at 10:04, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> On 10.01.2019 15:22, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> Hello guys,
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Upon request, I would like to announce that on Saturday, 12th Jan, we are going to branch Core Update 127.
>> 
>> This means that we no longer accept any patches that introduce any new features and only accept patches that fix any bugs introduced. Nothing new here, you all know how this works :)
>> 
>> This announcement is just coming now so that you all know this. It is a bit short notice this time, but I hope I will be better with this next time round. In the past some patches have been submitted after the merge window closed and had to be deferred to the next Core Update to the frustration of the submitters. Therefore, we now try this and hope that we can make the process better for everyone who is contributing!
>> 
>> We have an update with many new features here. Please help testing as soon as the first build is available.
>> ...
> 
> Thanks for the reminder, but regarding this Core update, one question is
> bothering me:
> 
> Did anyone had the chance to test 'squid 4.5' - especially along with
> this commit
> (https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=commit;h=eedca6e36c1131ce5542da5ccbfbb5667648c024
> => "squid: Run as many redirectors as we have CPU cores") - in a
> productive environment?
> 
> During my first tests, I got occasional warnings like "idnsSendQuery FD
> 8: sendto: (1) Operation not permitted" or "WARNING: All 2/2 redirector
> processes are busy" in squid 'cache.log' and I'd like to clarify
> possible mistakes in advance.
> 
> By now, I'm running the untuned parameters from current 'next' and these
> errors haven't appeared for some time now. Furthermore, 'testing tree'
> exists, ( ;-) ) but did anyone had a chance to try this?

I sent squid thousands of requests with ab (Apache Benchmark) and that worked fine with only one redirector.

Best,
-Michael

> 
> Best,
> Matthias