Questions on squid configuration

Hello--

We're running Squid (2.2Stable4 at the moment) on a Sun Ultra 5 under
Solaris 2.6. It's mostly working, but I've got a few questions on how to
improve performance.

- Every so often, a request for a page results in an immediate error (page
not found, I think), but an attempt right after that will succeed. In the
log file, these errors seem to show up with a return code of 0 (instead of
200, 304, 500, etc.). Is this a timeout problem? Is it a dnsserver
configuration problem?

- We've got a few dozen users using this proxy. Traffic is fairly light.
How do we decide how large the cache should be? Do we need a cache at all?
If we have just a very small cache directory, say 10mb, how many level 1
and level 2 directories do we need? The default values of 16*256=4096
subdirectories seems a bit much for this small amount of data.

- We've also had problems with running out of inodes. How do we solve this?

- Is there a guideline to sensible squid.conf settings?

thanks!

--Steve
Received on Mon Dec 06 1999 - 18:56:10 MST