Hi, I believe I have some performance issues here using Squid. The swap area is being used a lot (590 MB). Almost the whole memory (2 GB) is being used, and the Process Size (via squidclient) is 427710 KB. CPU is being heavly used - 80% (squidclient). I use Trendmicro IWSS as default parent. Here are some data: Output (part of) of top 14:45:07 up 6 days, 1:30, 1 user, load average: 4.01, 3.83, 3.87 573 processes: 569 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 58.3% 0.0% 28.3% 0.7% 2.9% 3.6% 5.8% cpu00 57.2% 0.0% 25.8% 1.5% 4.9% 4.5% 5.8% cpu01 59.5% 0.0% 30.8% 0.0% 0.9% 2.7% 5.8% Mem: 2061660k av, 2042204k used, 19456k free, 0k shrd, 39248k buff 1063336k actv, 129836k in_d, 30388k in_c Swap: 5120376k av, 594344k used, 4526032k free 453808k cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 10986 nobody 25 0 424M 417M 2340 R 40.1 20.7 1055m 0 squid 1625 root 15 0 9052 8620 8016 S 2.0 0.4 127:36 1 winbindd 1627 root 15 0 10296 9.9M 9696 S 0.9 0.4 54:48 1 winbindd 2042 iscan 15 0 9976 9976 9284 D 0.8 0.4 21:41 1 postmaster 11373 nobody 15 0 708 676 640 D 0.7 0.0 14:12 1 diskd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data from squidclient: PROCESS SIZE Process Data Segment Size via sbrk(): 427710 KB Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Total space in arena: 427710 KB PAGE FAULT RATE Page faults with physical i/o: 14793 5min: page_faults = 0.009999/sec 60 min: page_faults = 0.035832/sec HTTP REQUESTS Number of HTTP requests received: 7448700 Average HTTP requests per minute since start: 1766.5 5min: client_http.requests = 139.435024/sec 60min: client_http.requests = 109.345998/sec HTTP SERVICE TIME client_http.all_median_svc_time = 0.047755 seconds DNS SERVICE TIME dns.median_svc_time = 0.170482 seconds OPEN FILE DESCRIPTORS Number of file desc currently in use: 2145 CPU 5 min cpu_usage = 68.974431% 60 min cpu_usage = 81.409616% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Squid.conf (some performance related stuff) maximum_object_size 10240 KB maximum_object_size_in_memory 20 KB ipcache_size 10000 fqdncache_size 10000 negative_dns_ttl 15 seconds cache_mem 256 MB cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 8088 7 no-query default ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't have Squidguard nor Dansguardian, only Trendmicro IWSS as mentioned, so all the acls's and handled by Squid itself. Is there anything I can do to improve the overall performance? Thanks in advance, Carlos Eduardo. Carlos Eduardo Gomes Marins. Analista de Segurança em TI. Cast Informática S/A. Tel.: +55 (61) 3414.3607 carlos.suporte.deinf@xxxxxxxxxx