Re: [squid-users] tuning squid 2.3/2.4 on a slow connection

Hi Joe!

After I added
 
echo 1024 32768 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
echo 1024 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog

I realised that squid is restarting every 4mins.

Why is this

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
 
Edward Millington
(Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
Carlisle House
Hincks Street
Bridgetown
Barbados
1-246-430-7435
Fax : 1-246-431-0170
www.cariaccess.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
To: "Babak Farrokhi" <farrokhi@earth.planet.co.ir>
Cc: "Edward" <edward@cariaccess.com>; "squid" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] tuning squid 2.3/2.4 on a slow connection

> There has been much discussion over the years about performance tuning
> Squid. I've written an exhaustive article about tuning Squid for Linux,
> which is here:
>
> http://www.swelltech.com/pengies/joe/squidtuneup/t1.html
>
> This includes most of what we do on our commercial cache appliances,
> which outperform Cobalt by a /vast/ margin (see benchmarking results for
> the extensive proof of this). I do not know what Cisco's performance
> looks like, as I don't believe they have been to a cacheoff lately.
> Cobalt boxes use a standard Squid--there is nothing magic about Cobalt's
> Squid (or the Squid on our boxes for that matter, we just work harder to
> make it go fast).
>
> I'll be updating the article above in the next few weeks to take into
> account all of the new features of 2.4 (which is as fast as
> 2.2STABLE5+hno that I recommend in the article), and give some pointers
> for other OS options than Linux. Though the focus will still very much
> be on using Linux on Intel hardware plus and async i/o compile of Squid,
> because that is what I use, and that is what I know (not to mention that
> it is the fastest commodity hardware/software platform for Squid, so the
> natural choice when documenting tuning Squid for maximum performance).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Babak Farrokhi wrote:
>
> > When asking about squid performacen, it seems that nobody is interested in
> > answering. I have the same problem and already posted in this list.
> > I am using Squid-2.4Stable1 on FreeBSD 4.3RC with lots of tuning on my OS.
> > But the cache performance is not like commercial cache appliances (Cobalt,
> > Cisco). Is there any whitepaper about tuning squid to get the best
> > performance?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Babak Farrokhi
> >
> > On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Edward wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi everyone!
> >>
> >> Have anyone been able to tune squid 2.3/2.4 on a slow connection?
> >>
> >> Have you been able to reduce the latency when accessing cache pages?
> >>
> >> For reference, I am using a P2 400Mhz, 192MB, 6.4GB IDE, 9GB SCSI (for cache), squid 2.4 Stable 1.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
>
>
> --
> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
> http://www.swelltech.com
>
>
Received on Sun Apr 08 2001 - 11:33:55 MDT