On 01.06 19:09, squid squid wrote: > The general info and squid.conf for my 4 squid servers as follows: useless. > Pls advise how is their performance and any tuning needed in order to have > better performance. > Squid.conf (identical for all servers) > # NETWORK OPTIONS > http_port 3128 > icp_port 0 why did you turn off ICP? Turn it on and configure all caches as neighbours to each other. You will spare much of network bandwidth. > # OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE CACHE SIZE > cache_mem 10 MB unless you are low on memory, increase this. If you are low on memory, get more memory and increase this after. > maximum_object_size 1024 KB too low, I cache objects up to 32 MB. However that is highly dependant on cache size. > maximum_object_size_in_memory 1024 KB too high, I have 128KB to have more object with smaller sizes in memory > # LOGFILE PATHNAMES & CACHE DIRECTORIES > # Setting for null storage to avoid having a cache directory > cache_dir null /export/home/log/squid/null in such case, I understand why you have damn low efficiency. Your cache is 4 x 10 MB of ram and they are even not shared (via neighbour proxies). get some disks > # OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE > request_header_max_size 5 KB low. the default is 20KB for now > negative_ttl 5 minutes > positive_dns_ttl 30 minutes > negative_dns_ttl 1 minutes use internal DNS and that will make these useless. (DNS system has its own timeouts configured by admins of remote sites that are probably better than your values) > # HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS > # For Squid to run as transparent proxy > httpd_accel_uses_host_header on do you use it as cache for outgoing requests or as HTTP accelerator? in both cases bigger cache_mem is useful (and configuring all proxies as neighbours too), in the first case big disks are important (some disk cache may help you even when using squids as accelerators). > # MISCELLANEOUS > > memory_pools off remove this (default is on) -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. How does cat play with mouse? cat /dev/mouse
