[squid-users] Processor hog?

Got a question for the group. I am running squid on a RH7.1 machine. The
machine has a P3 800 and 384 ram. So it should have more that enough horse
power to handle caching a 50 user lab. But the users started to complain
that it was slow. So I did a little checking. Top showed

20551 squid 17 0 7816 7816 1228 S 30.7 2.0 0:34 squid
20552 squid 14 0 1560 1560 660 S 11.9 0.4 0:13 squid Guard
20553 squid 9 0 1380 1380 660 S 0.7 0.3 0:02 squid Guard

Now I saw a squid process up to 70% cpu usage. I know this is why it is
seeming slow to the users but I cannot figure out why this is happening. My
only clue is this.

2001/07/17 08:16:07| WARNING: All redirector processes are busy.
2001/07/17 08:16:07| WARNING: 5 pending requests queued
2001/07/17 08:16:07| Consider increasing the number of redirector processes
in your config file.

We use squidGuard to filter out porn for our school lab. But I have no idea
how to "increasing the number of redirector processes". Do I just make more
copies of squid guard? They site said it could handle millions of
connections per second.

Thanks,
Jamie
Received on Tue Jul 17 2001 - 10:26:32 MDT