RE: [squid-users] Speed of Squid

Squid was installed to support 70 users
We used to be 100, but then the Ugly "L" word dropped our numbers to 70.

Any WHO!!

I'm running SUSE Linux

SUSE Linux 8.1 Pro
In a Compaq DL320 with RAID 0, two 72GB drives 15K SCSI
I made a directory /squidcache, but I been unable to point squid to it.
I will be installing a 1Gbit NIC into it too.
This server is behind a firewall, so authentication is not even used (I
figured it would slow things down even more)besides couldn't get it to
work

Disk Partitions
Location Compaq RAID 0 drive 0
Cylinders 4357
Model Compaq Integrated Array Controller
 No. Type Extent Start End Use Free
1 Linux swap 1 258 swap
2 Linux 259 3001 / 87 %
3 Linux swap 3002 3401 swap
4 Linux 3402 4357 /squidcache 98 %

Thank you all in Advance!!

~alvaro
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Aube [mailto:aaube@firstindependent.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:30 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Speed of Squid

>My squid server 2.4 is running like a P100
>Speed on the server is very slow.

You may want to consider upgrading to the latest 2.5 Squid release
- there have been many improvements and it is better supported by
the list.

>The box has 2 1.6GHz procs
>1.5GB of RAM

Squid cannot take advantage of multiple processors, so the extra
CPU won't help you. Your RAM should be more than sufficient.

You didn't tell us how many/what size IDE/SCSI hard drives you have,
or what operating system you're running on. We also need to know
how many users the box will handle.

>what are the settings in the config file to help the cache server
>speed up and perform like a direct link to the web via a full T1.

The default config can handle a T1 just fine, so long as the hardware
and operating system aren't limiting it.

Adam
Received on Fri Aug 29 2003 - 07:26:59 MDT