Re: [squid-users] tuning question

Van Bossche Koen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am tuning my squid configuration and trying to boost performance. However
> it does not seem to help anything.
> I read all tuning tips from the mailing list, manual, ... but I do not seem
> to boost up my HTTP hits.
> I have my box installed with 11Gb cache, my box a Netserver LP1000r with
> PIII850MHz and 1GB memory (squid using 192Mb), ReiserFS installed. I have
> almost no collisions (about 5%). It's being used as parent for about 1200
> users. Yesterday I installed squid2.5PRE1 and I put TCP MSL on 30, I had
> HTTP requests per minute of 160. This morning again I only seem to get about
> 40 with 220 users logged on.
> Does anyone have a few tips, what to look for and how to boost up for more
> performance?

Get more users, maybe?

If your users aren't generating more requests than that, Squid can't
answer more...Tell them to browse faster.

Or are you saying your Squid is slowing down users' browsing by limiting
the maximum number of requests that can be processed? I kind of doubt
Squid is maxing out at 160 requests/minute no matter what level of
tuning (or no tuning). I just don't see how Squid could be slowing down
at 160 reqs/minute...that's not even 3 reqs/sec. You can't have a Squid
that slow, unless you have a broken OS or machine.

Anyway, 220 users at 40 reqs/minute doesn't sound wrong at all. Folks
usually like to pause for a few minutes to read each page that they
browse to.

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Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
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