Router1 (Running Fedora Core 1) Acting as a proxy server squid-2.5.STABLE3-2.fc1 Router2 (Running Debian 3.1) Acting as a parent proxy server squid 2.5.9-10sarge2 squid-common 2.5.9-10sarge2 [Router1] --(2Mbps/384Kbps WAN)--> [Router2] --(3Mbps/3Mbps)--> Internet Router1 internet access is via Router2, if I have squid running on router1 and have no cache-peers setup, webbrowsing is fairly fast. I get around 20-40k/s downloading a 70MB mpg file from a remote server. If I set a cache peer on router1 to go via a parent proxy on router2, web browsing seems very slow. I can only get 4k/s downloading the same 70MB files. This is tested after hours when the link is lightly used. Any ideas why I might be suffering such poor performance problems going through a parent proxy? The cpu load on router2 seems fairly low as well as disk IO according to cachemgr.cgi Cheers, Minh
