I should probably mention that I am not using any delay_pools or anything like that. I'm running squid 2.5STABLE5 ;) My squid.conf minus the ACL stuff is http_port 3128 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? no_cache deny QUERY cache_mem 48 MB cache_swap_low 90 cache_swap_high 95 maximum_object_size 524288 KB maximum_object_size_in_memory 1024 KB cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA memory_replacement_policy lru cache_dir ufs /var/squid/cache 50000 64 1024 cache_access_log /var/squid/logs/access.log cache_log /var/squid/logs/cache.log cache_store_log /var/squid/logs/store.log log_ip_on_direct on log_fqdn on auth_param basic children 5 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 quick_abort_min 128 KB quick_abort_max 4096 KB quick_abort_pct 75 read_timeout 30 minutes persistent_request_timeout 2 minutes client_lifetime 1 day