images.....load....very....slowly...

I compiled, installed, and configured squid-2.0.RELEASE on my
FreeBSD-2.2.7 system and have noticed that web surfing has slowed
dramatically. I was previously running squid-1.2.22 without any
problems. This is my home system, connected via a 56k modem.

I have attached a portion of access.log as an example of what I'm
seeing. I am trying to view the FreeBSD home page, which is in the
cache, yet it takes just under 2 minutes to load! If you look at the
timestamps, you notice that there are 'bursts' of activity, about 4 at a
time. Coincidently, I have 4 dnsservers. This is where I suspect the
problem may be, but I can't see anything wrong my squid.conf file - the
initial DNS lookups work fine:

[from cache.log]
1998/10/15 19:53:12| Starting Squid Cache version 2.0.RELEASE for
i386-unknown-freebsd2.2.7...
1998/10/15 19:53:12| Process ID 27177
1998/10/15 19:53:12| With 1024 file descriptors available
1998/10/15 19:53:12| Performing DNS Tests...
1998/10/15 19:53:12| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
1998/10/15 19:53:12| Started 4 'dnsserver' processes

Other than this 'slowness', it seems to work ok. Anyone have any hints
on what the problem could be? If more info is needed, please let me
know.

Thanks in advance,

 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au
 
        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speed Internet Services
 http://www.speednet.com.au/

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[access.log]
908445816.778     60 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 12921 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/ - NONE/- text/html
908445818.077     21 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1872 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/flash0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445818.166     30 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 2343 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/flash1.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445818.215     20 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1621 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/soft0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445833.480     68 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1893 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/soft1.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445834.773     20 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1220 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/support1.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445834.832     21 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 2117 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/docs1.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445834.925     54 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1262 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/vendors1.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445850.389     36 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1138 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/search1.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445850.877     22 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1083 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/index1.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445850.940     24 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 2444 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/get1.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445851.010     36 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1916 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/faq1.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445866.250     49 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1759 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/handboo1.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445866.336     44 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 970 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/support0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445866.384     22 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1971 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/docs0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445866.772     34 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 2454 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/get0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445882.501     38 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1754 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/handboo0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445884.678     20 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 2774 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/ugu_icon.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445884.860     64 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 5593 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/powerlogo.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445885.485     38 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1189 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/vendors0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445899.449     33 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1189 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/vendors0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445900.143     49 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 986 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/index0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445900.174     20 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1910 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/faq0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445900.492     29 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 2895 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/apache.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445916.056     17 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 986 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/index0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445916.432     54 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 11473 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/freebsd_1.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445916.789     50 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 3093 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/wclogo.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445916.824     18 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 1093 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/search0.gif - NONE/- image/gif
908445932.665     22 172.22.2.4 TCP_HIT/200 3287 GET
http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/dae_up2.gif - NONE/- image/gif