Re: newbie needs help

I would strongly recommend doing the opposite. Back cache_mem off to 8MB
or so. I've been doing tests under linux that suggest that somewhere
between 5MB and 15MB seems to be optimal, but haven't been able to
narrow it further yet (deadlines, deadlines).

D

Tony_Melia@Dell.com wrote:
>
> I'm no expert, but you are only using 32M of your ram for the proxy. If
> this is a dedicated proxy server, increase the amount dedicated to caching.
> Squid apparently useds up to 3 times the amount you specifiy, so change
> cache_mem 32 MB to about 150M.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony Melia MCSE
> Dell Server Support Group
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: halbart@gmx.net [mailto:halbart@gmx.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:37 PM
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: newbie needs help
>
> Hello,
>
> I´m using Squid Cache: Version 2.2.STABLE4 on an old linux box,200 Mhz
> pentium, 512 Mb ram, kernel 2.2.5, 2 x 9Gb uw-scsi harddisk.
> The box is standing inside a DMZ,so requests from the inside to the proxy
> have to pass through a firewall as well as requests from the proxy to the
> internet and back.
>
> For the last 5 month or so everything went just fine for me and about 500
> users, but now more and more people start complaining about the proxy
> getting slow. Since we already checked the firewall sides (everything just
> fine),
> there is only the proxy left I fear.
> To my shame im must say that I didn´t care much for the proxy the last
> month, just put it up about 6 month ago and started it. Compiling linux
> and
> squid I used the defaults, my squid.conf is also default, apart from:
>
> acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
> no_cache deny QUERY
>
> cache_mem 32 MB
> ipcache_size 2048
> fqdncache_size 2048
> cache_dir 6000 16 256
> dns_children 20
> request_size 20480 KB
> reference_age 2 months
>
> miss_access allow all
> cache_effective_user squid
> dns_testnames netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net
> logfile_rotate 7
> forwarded_for off
>
> I left out a few acl´s but that´s all to it.
>
> I already read through the FAQ, but could get much out of it that would
> obviously help. So I´m sorry to bother you with just another squid.conf
> question, but I desperatly need some hints on how to tune my squid.conf or
> maybe
> even new compiling linux and squid.
>
> Thank´s Peter
>
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Received on Thu Nov 04 1999 - 20:08:15 MST