Re: [squid-users] Poor performance

> Hi list.
> - I've a network with 1600 PCs. I'm using to fws (Fedora 3 with
> IPTABLES), and transparent proxy with squid, installed on both FWs.
> - I splited the net to 800 PCs for each fw.
> - I have a very poor network performance. I have a link of 6MBs.
> - I intend also that squid force the cache to some files (EXE, GIF,
> JPG...), as it would supposed to do.
> - How to set squid as FQDN?

Don't quite understand this last question.
How to set a program as a domain name? please explain.

>
> Thanks in advance;
> Andrey
>
>
> -> Interesting things on squid.conf
>
> cache_swap_low 80
> cache_swap_high 85
>
> ipcache_size 2048
> fqdncache_size 5000
>
>
> httpd_accel_host virtual
> httpd_accel_port 80
> httpd_accel_with_proxy on
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
>

You appear to be running squid2.5. For transparent proxy try upgrade to
2.6, which is much better at it.

>
> # cache_dir ufs /var/cache/squid tamanho_maximo diretorios subdirs
> cache_dir ufs /var/cache/squid 1000 200 10
>

Try using aufs as filsystem type. It's quite a bit faster than ufs with
high traffic. Also for the size of your network you may want to increase
the available cache size.

>
> cache_mem 500 MB
> maximum_object_size 1000 KB
> minimum_object_size 1 KB
> maximum_object_size_in_memory 300 KB
>
> fqdncache_size 10000
>
> cache_replacement_policy lru
> memory_replacement_policy lru
>
> cache_store_log none
>
> #
> # Usa o proprio dnsmasq como server :-)
> #
> dns_nameservers 192.168.0.252
> dns_testnames www.ufmg.br
>
>
Received on Tue Jun 12 2007 - 16:29:24 MDT