Re: Find tuning Squid

Shane,

With that config, I would suspect high disk I/O. I would suggest
checking Wait I/O on the Linux box. It would also not be a bad idea to
reduce the maximum_object_size to < 8mb.

L8r.

"Shane T. Ferguson" wrote:
>
> Hi, I've been running Squid 2.2.STABLE3 for a couple of months now on:
> --PIII 450
> --256MB RAM
> --17Gb hdd
> --RH5.2 (2.0.36 kernel)
>
> I have 8 GB to be used for caching (this is maximum amount I am allowed).
> The server itself is primarily used for cacheing for approximately 300-500
> clients. Although the server does have "read access" to another News server.
> All seems to be working ok "sort of" -- myself and others find it a little
> slow with name lookups when accessing it.
> Here is a bit of what I have in my squid.conf file. Can anyone offer any
> suggestions as to how I can improve things? Thanks.
>
> cache_mem 128 MB
> maximum_object_size 32768 KB
> ipcache_size 32768
> ipcache_low 90
> ipcache_high 95
> cache_dir /home/squid/cache 8000 32 512
> cache_dns_program /usr/local/squid/bin/dnsserver
> dns_children 12
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Shane T. Ferguson
> System Administrator
> Galaxy Data Services
> Suite 208, Silicon Island
> 70 Crescent St.
> Sydney, Nova Scotia
> B1S 2Z7
> (902) 567-2262 (phone)
> (902) 562-1422 (fax)
Received on Thu Oct 21 1999 - 16:14:15 MDT