Re: [squid-users] Squid 2/3 slower than direct access

--On September 2, 2006 7:53:59 PM +1000 Greg Wilson
<gwilson@summerland.com.au> wrote:

> I've installed Squid on a HP DL380 server with dual cpus, 2 Gb RAM and
> SCSI raid 5. It's running on Debian Sarge with little extra load. I am

Well...it shouldn't have much to do with the speed of Squid if it's a
hardware RAID....but has the RAID 5 set finished building? Also are there
no failed disks in the set?

> using this for our staff of around 100 and though this would do the job
> easily. It's running with all default Squid settings except Cache RAM
> which I've increased to 96Mb. There are no peer caches. I have checked
> that there are no speed and duplex setting mismatches between the proxy
> and firewall.
> The squid proxy returns web pages approx. 2/3 slower than a direct
> connection using the same link.
> Can some-one please give me some simple steps to increase the speed of
> the cache?
> Thanks for any advice.
>

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