Re: [squid-users] poor performance

# top -d 1

last pid: 4183; load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00
                             up 0+01:17:41 12:44:54
76 processes: 1 running, 75 sleeping
CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle
Mem: 57M Active, 19M Inact, 44M Wired, 16K Cache, 27M Buf, 3708M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

2007/8/30, cktan@ocesb.com.my <cktan@ocesb.com.my>:
> Hi,
>
> Please make sure your squid is not using SWAP or it will definitely slow
> down the system. Post your top.
>
> Regards
>
> Lutieri G. wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Today i'm running squid 2.5stable9 in a debian sarg box SUN v20z. All
> > works very nice. Although, i need to migrate squid to a new server SUN
> > x4100 running FreeBSD. And now begin my problems.
> > I was talking about my performance problems with freebsd mailing list.
> > But we can't find a solution for my problem described below:
> >
> > First of all, i'll paste some informations about my new server.
> >
> > #uname -a
> > FreeBSD sd.xyz.com.br 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 29
> > 10:26:18 BRT 2007
> > root@sd.xyz.com.br:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/LGB amd64
> >
> > #mount
> > /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local)
> > devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
> > /dev/da0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> > /dev/da0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> > /dev/da0s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> > /dev/da0s2a on /cache (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> > devfs on /var/chroot/named/dev (devfs, local)
> >
> >
> > #df -h
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/da0s1a 496M 88M 368M 19% /
> > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
> > /dev/da0s1e 496M 538K 456M 0% /tmp
> > /dev/da0s1f 9.4G 4.5G 4.1G 52% /usr
> > /dev/da0s1d 4.7G 1.5G 2.9G 34% /var
> > /dev/da0s2a 9.4G 89M 8.6G 1% /cache
> > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/chroot/named/dev
> >
> > My kernel was compiled in the day before yesterday with some tunning options:
> >
> > Commented:
> > options INET6 # IPv6
> >
> > - included:
> > options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory
> > options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues
> > options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores
> > options SMP # Symmetric
> >
> > options HZ=2000
> > options DEVICE_POLLING # Soft intrrupt's
> > options VFS_AIO
> > options MAXDSIZ=(4096UL*1024*1024) # Conf para 4Gb
> > options MAXSSIZ=(256UL*1024*1024) # E aqui vai pra 128
> > options DFLDSIZ=(4096UL*1024*1024) # 4096 tb!
> >
> > # Message Queues [Based on Squid FAQ]
> >
> > option MSGMNB=262144 # Number of bytes in a queue
> > option MSGMNI=128 # Need to be at least 2 times the number of
> > cache_dir entries in the squid
> > option MSGSSZ=256 # Size of the message segment in a queue
> > option MSGTQL=16384 # Number of max queue identifiers versus 128
> > option MSGSEG=2048 # Number of messages segments
> >
> > # Shared Memory [Based on Squid FAQ]
> > options SHMMNI=256 # The half of the message queues at least [1 for
> > each cache_dir]
> > options SHMALL=65536 #
> > options SHMMAX=(128UL*1024*1024) #
> > options SHMSEG=128
> >
> >
> > In squid.conf file :
> >
> > cache_dir diskd /usr/local/squid/cache/cache1 5120 16 256 Q1=128 Q2=100
> > cache_dir diskd /usr/local/squid/cache/cache2 5120 16 256 Q1=128 Q2=100
> >
> > cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA
> >
> > memory_replacement_policy heap GDSF
> >
> > cache_mem 1536 MB
> >
> > cache_swap_low 65
> > cache_swap_high 80
> >
> > maximum_object_size 64 MB
> > minimum_object_size 0 KB
> > maximum_object_size_in_memory 2560 Kb
> >
> > #squid -v
> > Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE14
> > configure options: '--bindir=/usr/local/sbin'
> > '--sbindir=/usr/local/sbin' '--datadir=/usr/local/etc/squid'
> > '--libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/squid'
> > '--localstatedir=/usr/local/squid' '--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/squid'
> > '--enable-removal-policies=lru heap' '--disable-linux-netfilter'
> > '--disable-linux-tproxy' '--disable-epoll' '--enable-auth=basic ntlm
> > digest' '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=DB NCSA PAM MSNT SMB YP'
> > '--enable-digest-auth-helpers=password'
> > '--enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user session unix_group
> > wbinfo_group' '--enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=SMB'
> > '--enable-negotiate-auth-helpers=squid_kerb_auth' '--with-pthreads'
> > '--enable-storeio=ufs diskd null aufs' '--enable-delay-pools'
> > '--enable-snmp' '--disable-carp' '--enable-ssl' '--with-openssl=/usr'
> > '--enable-cache-digests' '--enable-arp-acl'
> > '--enable-follow-x-forwarded-for' '--with-large-files'
> > '--enable-large-cache-files' '--enable-err-languages=Azerbaijani
> > Bulgarian Catalan Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French
> > German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian
> > Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian-1251 Russian-koi8-r Serbian
> > Simplify_Chinese Slovak Spanish Swedish Traditional_Chinese Turkish'
> > '--enable-default-err-language=English' '--enable-ntlm-fail-open'
> > '--prefix=/usr/local' '--mandir=/usr/local/man'
> > '--infodir=/usr/local/info/' 'amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2' 'CC=cc'
> > 'CFLAGS=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/include' 'CPPFLAGS='
> > 'LDFLAGS= -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib'
> > 'build_alias=amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2'
> > 'host_alias=amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2'
> > 'target_alias=amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2'
> >
> >
> > My new box is a X4100 SUN.
> > With 4 gigabits NIC.
> > Two SAS disks.
> > 4Gb RAM
> >
> > I tryed use with and without RAID but I got the same problem.
> >
> > Let me explain my environment:
> > All my users use IE6 and they have proxy config like this:
> > host: proxy.xyz.com.br
> > port 3128
> >
> > Once i need to migrate all users to my new server with FreeBSD ,I only
> > change the IP address of proxy register in DNS server.
> > Ok. After two minutes i can see some users in the new server log(access.log).
> >
> > After 10 minutes squidclient mgr:info return me 70 clients and the
> > speed connection goes very low for the users.
> >
> > I commented out all acl's and authentication scheme in squid conf
> > file. Running squid i'm monitoring with systat -v and iostat but CPU
> > and disks is working almost all time as idle.
> >
> > cache.log doesn't show me errors. only this messages:
> > 2007/08/30 08:13:31| httpAccept: FD 39: accept failure: (53) Software
> > caused connection abort
> > 2007/08/30 08:13:32| httpAccept: FD 39: accept failure: (53) Software
> > caused connection abort
> > 2007/08/30 08:13:32| httpAccept: FD 39: accept failure: (53) Software
> > caused connection abort
> > 2007/08/30 08:13:32| httpAccept: FD 39: accept failure: (53) Software
> > caused connection abort
> > 2007/08/30 08:13:32| httpAccept: FD 39: accept failure: (53) Software
> > caused connection abort
> > 2007/08/30 08:13:32| httpAccept: FD 39: accept failure: (53) Software
> > caused connection abort
> > 2007/08/30 08:13:32| httpAccept: FD 39: accept failure: (53) Software
> > caused connection abort
> > 2007/08/30 08:13:32| httpAccept: FD 39: accept failure: (53) Software
> > caused connection abort
> > 2007/08/30 08:13:32| httpAccept: FD 39: accept failure: (53) Software
> > caused connection abort
> > 2007/08/30 08:13:50| httpAccept: FD 39: accept failure: (53) Software
> > caused connection abort
> >
> > I've read that is harmless.
> >
> > But the low speed continue.
> > This is not a DNS problem. I've tested.
> >
> > Any suggestion?!?!
> >
> > tanx
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> CK Tan
> IT Manager
>
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>
>

-- 
Att.
Lutieri G. B.