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Squid Web proxy/cache

I work on the Squid Web Proxy/Cache software; primarily in the areas of network performance and object storage. My Squid-related scratch site can be found here.

My current work is on improving the file store code and interfaces inside Squid. I've broken it up into a few stages:

• (Done): Improve COSS to the point where its stable and testable
• (Done): Test COSS in production; get back performance and usage figures
• (Done with Steven Wilton): Improve the COSS design
• Improve the Squid<->Filestore API as needed
• Write discussion paper on the experience

The COSS code already outperforms the UFS/AUFS/DISKD code in Squid; I'll put in more effort into comparitive figures after my Semester 1 exams. It does have some noticeable problems with disk IO and scales rather poorly; I have ideas on how to fix this but I'll wait until the code has been tested and I have feedback from others.

Random Update: Steven Wilton at Eftel took COSS and fixed the couple of disk IO performance issues with some clever ideas. COSS now performs quite well!