> Dear all > > i am facing a new problem with squid as the connections are getting > slow every hour . Users are getting "404, page not found " message, when > this problem occurs .Then either i had to restart squid or reboot the > machine > inorder to get squid back to job. Again the problem repeats in the > next hour. > > >... - Please set 'cache_mem' to its default, for starters (in comment) and check whether this helps. Read about the full meaning of this parameter in squid.conf.default (check all comments). You don't have enough phys mem. for the intended value set. - Consider upgrading to the latest STABLE release; your version , currently installed, is rather old. M.