Checkout whether you are running out of file descriptors. If you are using iptables, checkout if you are maxing on net.ipv4.ip_conntrack_max. You should be able to see these messages on console. Thanks, Venkatesh K On 10/27/05, Joost de Heer <sanguis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Usually my proxy (Squid 2.5 STABLE10 on RH Linux) performs quite well, but > occasionally I see a drop in the number of successful requests (it's > usually around 200/s, but drops to as low as 100/s). I've written a small > performance test which uses curl to measure time_total, time_connect and > speed_download. The script runs on the same machine. Most of the time, the > connect time is close to 0 ms, but occasionally I see a spike, largest > I've seen is around 6 seconds(!) connect time. time_total - time_connect > is reasonably constant (somewhere between 600 and 800 ms) > > Does anyone have an idea where I could start to find a cause of this > strange behaviour? Kernel settings? TCP settings? Squid settings? > > Joost > > -- Venkatesh. K
