Hello all, I'm comming back with new info: - i rebuilded from src.rpm and upgraded from squid-2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.11 to squid-2.5.STABLE11-1.FC3! After upgrade, no semnificative improvements regarding my problem (between 11AM up 15PM my squid become slower - connections are worse then a dial-up connection) - i recorded CPU Load, Free Memory, New TCP Connections, Established TCP Connections via snmp. CPU average=4% (with max 25%) so.... super fine! Free Memory = 24M !!!!!! I have installed on my serverv 1G Reg Ecc available (plus 2Gb swap). Swap still remain unused and from phisycal memory it remain 18-24M free. Connection information for squid: Number of clients accessing cache: 130 Number of HTTP requests received: 482956 Average HTTP requests per minute since start: 163.7 Select loop called: 4295056 times, 41.213 ms avg Before to order more memory, i would like to know if there is something wrong in my squid.conf. # cat /etc/squid/squid.conf http_port 3128 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? no_cache deny QUERY cache_mem 256 MB maximum_object_size 32768 KB maximum_object_size_in_memory 64 KB cache_replacement_policy heap GDSF memory_replacement_policy heap GDSF cache_dir aufs /var/spool/squid 20480 16 256 cache_store_log none ftp_user squid@xxxxxxxxx auth_param basic children 100 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching server auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/pam_auth auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours auth_param basic casesensitive off refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 half_closed_clients off acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl lanpass proxy_auth REQUIRED acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl SSL_ports port 443 563 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access allow localhost http_access allow lanpass http_access deny all http_reply_access allow all icp_access allow all cache_mgr admin@xxxxxxxxx visible_hostname proxy.mydoom.ro announce_period 0 log_icp_queries off cachemgr_passwd *** all buffered_logs on coredump_dir /var/spool/squid client_persistent_connections off What is not mentioned above (in squid.conf) has default value! Top say the same thing... see below results sorted by memory usage: top - 10:03:14 up 2 days, 7:11, 3 users, load average: 0.36, 0.33, 0.29 Tasks: 171 total, 1 running, 170 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 4.0% us, 4.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 89.4% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 1.8% si Mem: 1034680k total, 1014068k used, 20612k free, 68500k buffers Swap: 2008084k total, 144k used, 2007940k free, 491916k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4537 squid 15 0 453m 288m 1792 S 5.3 28.5 11:52.43 squid 4539 squid 17 0 30440 28m 676 S 0.0 2.8 0:06.38 pam_auth 2901 mysql 16 0 120m 18m 3480 S 0.0 1.8 0:00.11 mysqld Any ideas? Alex On Saturday 24 September 2005 21:15, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > Okay... These look pretty good. Hits are fast, misses are okay, DNS > > > requests are about what I would expect... I'm a bit perplexed. What > > > are the symptoms of slow connections? Is it throughput on large > > > downloads, pages with lots of connections (msn.com with it's thousands > > > of images), does it just take forever for a connection to get started, > > > or is it something else entirely? > > On 24.09 15:21, Alex wrote: > > NO, the situation is very simple: not matter content of page. Even if > > www.google.com is accesed, it take more then 20-30s to load/display it > > correctly. Without squid, www.google.com is loaded instantly! > > ehm, this might be caused by: > > 1. clients connect from IP's not in DNS, and your squid checks for their > reverse (and probably direct) DNS informations > 2. you are requiring ident for them, they are firewalled and don't support > ident requests > > for 99% it's the first case. turn off dns checking in squid, or better, fix > your internal DNS.