Re: [squid-users] Re: slow squid

From: Joost de Heer <sanguis@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:23:15 +0200 (CEST)

>> - Which OS filesystem are you using? Do you have noatime mount option
>> turned on?
> ext3 , no and i dont know how to turn it on

noatime in /etc/fstab in the mount options field

>> - Is it still slow with a different storage scheme (aufs, diskd)?
> i didnt realy try aufs or diskd , do i have to?

UFS is quite old, the other two are newer, and in most cases, better
options, especially on Linux.

>> - What's the memory usage? Is the machine swapping heavily? A 30G disk
>> memory usage around 50%

>yes its swapping heavily

And here is the true reason for slowness: Memory shortage. Add more
memory, or make the cache smaller. See the FAQ for memory requirement
guesses: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#ss8.11.

Joost
Received on Tue Jul 12 2005 - 04:23:21 MDT

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