All I can say is that your symptoms is not normal.
The first thing to test if possible is what the browsing responsiveness is
when running a browser locally on the same server as you run Squid but
without using the proxy. This to rule out any networking errors on the
Squid server.
Regards
Henrik
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Maciej Wosko wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Im totaly disappointed with Squid. I use it as proxy server for
> http,https,ftp traffic.
> The problem is with speed. I waiting about 20 seconds untill any
> thing can be displayed on browser. There is no problem when I turn off
> squid and set iptables to forward - then sites load in about 2-3
> seconds. ( There is no problem with download - about 50 - 60 kbps )
>
> Since last week I reinstalled it 3 times. Currently I use lates stable
> version
> Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE4
> with configure options:
> --prefix=/proxy/usr --exec-prefix=/proxy/usr --enable-delay-pools --enable-cache-digests --enable-poll --disable-ident-lookups --enable-truncate --enable-removal-policies --enable-err-language=Polish
>
> and have still this same problem...
>
> there is a cache.log:
>
> 2003/11/30 18:50:17| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE4 for i686-pc-linux-gnu...
> 2003/11/30 18:50:17| Process ID 13212
> 2003/11/30 18:50:17| With 1024 file descriptors available
> 2003/11/30 18:50:17| Performing DNS Tests...
> 2003/11/30 18:50:17| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
> 2003/11/30 18:50:17| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32796, FD 4
> 2003/11/30 18:50:17| Adding nameserver 194.204.152.34 from /etc/resolv.conf
> 2003/11/30 18:50:17| Adding nameserver 217.98.63.164 from /etc/resolv.conf
> 2003/11/30 18:50:41| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE4 for i686-pc-linux-gnu...
> 2003/11/30 18:50:41| Process ID 13223
> 2003/11/30 18:50:41| With 1024 file descriptors available
> 2003/11/30 18:50:41| Performing DNS Tests...
> 2003/11/30 18:50:41| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
> 2003/11/30 18:50:41| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32796, FD 4
> 2003/11/30 18:50:41| Adding nameserver 194.204.152.34 from /etc/resolv.conf
> 2003/11/30 18:50:41| Adding nameserver 217.98.63.164 from /etc/resolv.conf
>
> ...think there is no error :(
>
> plz help me..i lost hope... i think i tryed everything
>
> plz send me some manual to install "step by step" what to do... maybe im doing
> some mistake during installation..i dont know. Maybe I have wrong config :(
> ---squid.conf---
>
> http_port 3128
> icp_port 0
> acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
> no_cache deny QUERY
> cache_mem 16 MB
> cache_dir ufs /proxy 200 16 256
> redirect_rewrites_host_header off
> cache_replacement_policy GDSF
> acl localnet src 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
> acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
> acl Safe_ports port 80 443 210 119 70 21 1025-65535
> acl CONNECT method CONNECT
> acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
> http_access allow localnet
> http_access allow localhost
> http_access deny !Safe_ports
> http_access deny CONNECT
> http_access deny all
> maximum_object_size 1200 KB
> store_avg_object_size 50 kB
> cache_mgr twoj@email
> cachemgr_passwd tajne_haslo all
> cache_effective_user squid
> cache_effective_group squid
> log_icp_queries off
> buffered_logs on
> ( is this ok? can anyone give me example of squid.conf how should it
> looks like ? )
>
>
> Some details:
>
> Squid is installed on PIII 700 Mhz, 256 MB RAM, HDD 20 Gb connected to
> inet on eth0 ( aDSL 512) and local net is on eth1.
>
> OS: Linux Slackware 8.1
>
> There is only 1 partition and it is formatted as ext2 ( maybe this is
> a reason ?).
>
> Plz help, I have noe idea what can i do wrong... think i checked
> everything.
>
Received on Sun Nov 30 2003 - 14:31:13 MST
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