Re: [squid-users] optimization suggestions?

Hi!

I have changed the disk replacement policy to LFUDA

I will also give a try to Async-UFS and COSS. But I cannot do it on week
days due to traffic issues with costumers. ( I need to compile a new
SQUID, and I will use the opportunity to upgrade squid and samba to the
latest stable release, in one shot! =)

On the other side, after seeing my config, do you agree with the
parameters i have used? any comments on memory, disk space? file system
used(REISER btw.)?

Best Regards

Victor Medina

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 07:41, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 30.09 09:08, Victor Medina wrote:
> > I have a SQUID server running on a Piii 1100ghz server with 1024 RAM,
> > SCSI disks. We have almost 100 users. And a 700Kbps ADSL Connection. The
> > cache directory is in it's own scsi drive.
> >
> > I am seeing some very slow response in the proxy server. The incoming
> > traffic in the internet connection is almost exactly the same as the
> > outgoing traffic in the internal network, which basically means that the
> > traffic from the internal proxy client is the same as the downloaded
> > stuff. (am i right?) I have "System Health" graphics from both
> > interfaces, I can send them to private mails if you want to take a look.
> > DNS is being handled by a BIND server on the same machine.
>
> > Most of the sites, that users can access are specified by acl's so they
> > are very predictable, most users have _only_ access to certain sites.
> > Even though there are a awful lot of users for a 700Kbps link, the site
> > are almost always the same. The cache dir is 7gb in size. SQUID has
> > plenty of RAM. File system being used is RAISER, and it's a linux
> > machine running kernel 2.6 under SuSE 9.1.
> >
> > Anybody would be so kind and suggest any optimization that could somehow
> > improve performance? I will copy the relevant information about my
> > squid.conf.
>
> what I'd advise you
> - using LFUDA cache_replacement_policy (memory replacement policy may
> stay GSDF)
> - using bigger cache (if your 700 kbps link is loaded with HTTP requests,
> your users are probably downloading more than 7GB per week)
> - play with maximum_object_size and
>
>
> another question is, if squid eats a lot of CPU and memory - unless it's
> badly configured, it should not.
Received on Fri Oct 01 2004 - 06:41:10 MDT