Re: [squid-users] issue with one of joe coopers modifcations

Ok...DNS lookups are fine. Not what I would call fast, but not slow
enough to cause problems, either, I wouldn't think. Was the reading
taken at peak load?

What version of Squid is this?

A single T1 is an easy load for the kind of hardware you have...I'm at a
bit of a loss as to what might be breaking.

Greg wrote:

> i killed squid and restarted it yesterday
>
> here the stats from the cachemgr page
> Median Service Times (seconds) 5 min 60 min:
> HTTP Requests (All): 0.16775 0.22004
> Cache Misses: 0.52331 0.49576
> Cache Hits: 0.02069 0.01847
> Near Hits: 0.52331 0.49576
> Not-Modified Replies: 0.01164 0.01035
> DNS Lookups: 0.23291 0.23291
> ICP Queries: 0.00000 0.00000
> to me the dns lookups are already ( i use the proxy server on this pc i am
> writing this email on )it seems pretty fast to me, the only thing i noticed,
> is, when i looked at the dns processes being used they all have being used,
> but handled hardly any requests.
>
> this proxy handles, a 1.5meg connection to the internet
>
> if you think it is dns, then i'll have to run named on the proxy server or
> something similar.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
> To: "Greg" <squid@australis.com.au>
> Cc: "squid" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 10:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] issue with one of joe coopers modifcations
>
>
>
>> Hmmm... 26GB is close to the limit for a 512MB machine. But not over
>> it. You should be fine wrt memory.
>>
>> What bandwidth are you supporting with this box? Are you overloading
>> the box or perhaps your DNS, such that requests in the queue grow too
>
> large.
>
>> 2.2.14 has no memory bugs that I'm aware of (we have had units in the
>> field in the past running this version with no problems). But 2.2.14
>> does have security problems, and should probably be upgraded (Red Hat
>> has RPMs on their site--just follow their instructions for updating a
>> kernel).
>>
>> What does your Squid process size look like when under load? I would
>> expect it to be about 300MB. Where is the rest of it going on your
>
> system?

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                      Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
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Received on Fri Mar 23 2001 - 19:42:16 MST