Re: tuning Squid on Solaris 7

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Isabelle Moullet wrote:

]In our case, it also appends that the median service times given in the
]cachemanager menu reach quite a high value for the Cache_Miss (4-5 sec).
]In a previous message, H. Nordstrom talked about the tuning to allow the
]use of a larger range of ports for a Linux system. Is this also possible
]on a Solaris machine ?

It is possible, but I doubt that it will change the perceived bad values
for a MISS. You can tune Solaris' tcp_smallest_unknown_port value to 8192
in order to get 56k ephemeral ports instead of 32k (Solaris default). You
shouldn't lower it much below 7000.

]The suggested command (netstat -n | wc -l) gives a value around 3300 on
]our system. Is this value too high ? Any way to tune the system (Solaris
]2.7) ?

The default 32k port should suffice for 3300 ports, but your command
should be "netstat -nf inet" on a Solaris system.

Further information on Solaris tunables is available on

        http://www.rvs.uni-hannover.de/people/voeckler/tune/EN/tune.html

Happy Caching,
Dipl.-Ing. Jens-S. Vöckler (voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de)
Institute for Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
University of Hanover, Germany; +49 511 762 4726
Received on Wed Feb 23 2000 - 02:10:39 MST