[squid-users] Re: Squid but propably off topic?

Hello,

Just FYI:
This problem was caused by the caching itself.
When I disable caching for all intranet hosts, the speed is like it
should be......(+/- local lan speed)
So it seems the my Squid disk performance is not like it should be.

rgrds,

       Bart

Schelstraete Bart wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I 'm facing a problem with my Squid proxy server, and I hope maybe of
> you can help me. (the problem is maybe not squid related)
> I installed Squid 2.5 on a Linux server which is currently live (RH
> 8.0). This machine is a 2 CPU machine, with 1 GIG RAM, 2 x 100 NIC.
> (in fact this are 1G bit cards, but it's currently connected on a
> 100Mb switch).
> And I also installed Squid 2.5 on a HP-UX machine , which I'm testing
> now. (HP-UX 11i). This machine has 3 CPU's, and 1x100 NIC. (also 1Gbit
> card)
> (completely the same Squid configuration)
>
> Everything works fine, and Squid itselfs works quite fast. Because we
> have a lot of servers in our lan, which doesn't need to use the
> 'cache_peer', I configured Squid that he goes directly to those
> machine, so without the cache_peer.
>
> Now yesterday I did some tests, and I downloaded a file via ftp
> through the proxy. (proxy will bypass cache_peer for lan, and I
> configured Squid).
> If I used the Linux Squid proxy , I got a download speed of +/- 300
> Kb/s. But If I'm using the HP-UX Squid proxy I get a download speed of
> 1000 / 1200 Kb/s..
>
> I double check the configuration, and I checked the access.log file,
> and Squid not using the cache_peer for that download.
> So I don't really understand why the Linux machine is that slow
> comparing with the HP-UX.
> Does somebody has a clue what I can do to improve this kind of
> connections?
>
>
>
> Bart
>
Received on Tue Jul 22 2003 - 22:50:25 MDT