> For the moment I don't see anything wrong. > What you can maybe try, just for a test , is disabling the caching for a > certain site/filetype. And then try to download such a file via the > proxy. > > If that works faster, then you will have a problem with the disks > (cache) or something similar. > If not...then you will have another problem (deuh :) . Maybe increase > loglevel then, maybe something can be discovered there. > > > Note: Do you have an antivirus running on that box? Because that will > slow down the downloads. > I have tried looking at everything, no AV is running, moved the cache to a different hard disk, reduced maximum_object_size to 512 KB and tried large downloads but still the same. I have looked into the logfiles, nothing noticable. I will try it on a vanilla kernel, somehow I feel its mandriva's kernel optimizations. HSA