[squid-users] Slow connections

Hello,

I have recently installed Squid 2.4Stable6 on a RedHat 6.2 system to replace
a MS Proxy server. Now when users access web content through Squid the
connection times are slowed by about one-fifth as compared to accessing
directly to the web.

We only want Squid to be able to monitor user Internet activity in the logs
so I have disabled cache in hopes of speeding up times. There are very few
users (10 at most at any given time) accessing Squid and "top" is not
showing excessive memory or CPU usage that would indicate a reason for
sluggishness.

Squid is actually running on the firewall which is the RedHat 6.2 system
mentioned earlier and is using the "PMFirewall" package (I know, I know,
this a major security no-no but that's the way we want it right now). Can
anyone offer any advice or point me in an appropriate direction to figure
out why Squid or the firewall is causing these slow connection times?

http://pointman.org/PMFirewall/

Thank you.
Ryan O'Rourke
Received on Mon Jul 29 2002 - 10:52:37 MDT