slow responding firewall server [SOLVED]

[peter at farrows.org (Peter Farrow)]

I upgraded the motherboard to a 933 MHz PIII, same ram and disk arrangement,

Problem went away...

Seems a PII 450 can't cut it on Centos 4.2.... but it is an old machine 
anyway...
P.


Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>Peter Farrow <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>web browsing now has a high latency ... DNS is all ok ...
>>I note that squid uses a fair amout of CPU on the PII450
>>from time to time,  but can't seem to get a handle on what
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>>causing the delay.
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>Could be differences in the disk / disk controller.  Squid is
>very storage intensive, although 512MiB RAM should mitigate
>much of that.
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>Run "hdparm -i" and "hdparm" (no options) on each of your IDE
>disks and check for DMA settings, and what the controller
>currently set at (the asterisk next to the modes).
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