> I did not follow the thread, but if it is really really slow I would > suspect name resolution on the squid machine. I cannot imagine anything > else that slows down squid to a crawl on such a machine. Yeah that maybe another thing to look at. Amongst others... Anyway, if you have a lot of disk access on a FreeBSD Partition with SoftUpdates disabled it will also slow your server down significantly. And we all know how much Squid relies on Disk access... Regards Maik