Re: [squid-users] Slow connections

"so I have disabled cache in hopes of speeding up times"

I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking, "Huh?" Caching is to speed things
up...why would it make things slower?

Check your cache.log, access.log and cachemgr for clues about where
things are slowing down. DNS is often the culprit when someone in your
situation (i.e. very few users) says "My Squid is slow".

Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
> 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

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