Once again, I'm using squid as an http-accelerator... Squid seems to be capping rate of transfer to around 80 KB/s...I'm doing this transfer locally from one squid box to another via wget. If I do this same transfer using scp, I get around 90 MB/s sustained. I'm also noticing drastic fluctuations in speed when downloading from squid...every once in awhile it will jump up to 300 KB/s, but then fall back down to around 80 KB/s again. I have eliminated the network, hardware and server configuration as potential problems -- I'm 99.8% sure it's squid. Does anyone have any ideas as to why squid is having trouble filling the pipe? Here's my trimmed down conf file...... ------------------------------------------------------ http_port 80 icp_port 0 # no cache_peer entries cache_mem 256 MB cache_swap_low 90 cache_swap_high 98 maximum_object_size 256 MB maximum_object_size_in_memory 1024 KB cache_replacement_policy lru memory_replacement_policy lru cache_dir aufs /cache0/c0 40960 16 256 cache_dir aufs /cache0/c1 40960 16 256 # ...etc, 12 in total cache_access_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log cache_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log cache_store_log none emulate_httpd_log on pid_filename /var/run/squid.pid debug_options ALL,1 redirect_program /usr/local/squid/redir.pl redirect_children 20 redirect_rewrites_host_header off refresh_pattern . 0 0% 4320 half_closed_clients off shutdown_lifetime 4 seconds # ACCESS CONTROLS (simplified) acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl origins dst xx.xxx.xxx.x/255.255.255.192 acl acceleratedPort port 80 http_access allow all http_access allow origins acceleratedPort http_reply_access allow all httpd_accel_port 80 httpd_accel_host my.accelerated.hostname.com httpd_accel_single_host on httpd_accel_with_proxy off httpd_accel_uses_host_header off logfile_rotate 0 log_icp_queries off icp_hit_stale on client_db off snmp_port 161 acl SNMPPasswd snmp_community nottherealstring acl SNMPClient1 src xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/255.255.255.255 acl SNMPClient2 src xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/255.255.255.255 snmp_access allow SNMPClient1 SNMPPasswd snmp_access allow SNMPClient2 SNMPPasswd snmp_access deny all uri_whitespace allow strip_query_terms off relaxed_header_parser warn