Hi, I am getting the following error: 2007/02/28 21:16:51| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000000 ((13) Permission denied) Squid gets too slow. This is my store.log 2007/02/28 21:11:01| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE7-NT for i686-pc-winnt... 2007/02/28 21:11:01| Running as Squid_Proxy Windows System Service on Windows XP 2007/02/28 21:11:01| Service command line is: 2007/02/28 21:11:01| Process ID 3380 2007/02/28 21:11:01| With 2048 file descriptors available 2007/02/28 21:11:01| With 2048 CRT stdio descriptors available 2007/02/28 21:11:01| Windows sockets initialized 2007/02/28 21:11:01| Performing DNS Tests... FATAL: ipcache_init: DNS name lookup tests failed. Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE7-NT): Terminated abnormally. 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE7-NT for i686-pc-winnt... 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Running as Squid_Proxy Windows System Service on Windows XP 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Service command line is: 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Process ID 3488 2007/02/28 21:11:04| With 2048 file descriptors available 2007/02/28 21:11:04| With 2048 CRT stdio descriptors available 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Windows sockets initialized 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Performing DNS Tests... 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Successful DNS name lookup tests... 2007/02/28 21:11:04| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 2442, FD 4 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Adding nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx from squid.conf 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Adding nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx from squid.conf 2007/02/28 21:11:04| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Referer logging is disabled. 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 7 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Swap maxSize 3072000 KB, estimated 236307 objects 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Target number of buckets: 11815 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Using 16384 Store buckets 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Max Mem size: 266240 KB 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Max Swap size: 3072000 KB 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Rebuilding storage in I:\Proxy/cache (CLEAN) 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Using Least Load store dir selection 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Set Current Directory to I:\Proxy/cache 2007/02/28 21:11:04| Loaded Icons. 2007/02/28 21:11:05| Accepting HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 8080, FD 13. 2007/02/28 21:11:05| Accepting HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 8080, FD 14. 2007/02/28 21:11:05| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 15. 2007/02/28 21:11:05| Accepting HTCP messages on port 4827, FD 16. 2007/02/28 21:11:05| Accepting SNMP messages on port 3401, FD 17. 2007/02/28 21:11:05| Ready to serve requests. 2007/02/28 21:11:05| Store rebuilding is 5.3% complete 2007/02/28 21:11:07| Done reading I:\Proxy/cache swaplog (77471 entries) 2007/02/28 21:11:07| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2007/02/28 21:11:07| 77471 Entries scanned 2007/02/28 21:11:07| 0 Invalid entries. 2007/02/28 21:11:07| 0 With invalid flags. 2007/02/28 21:11:07| 77471 Objects loaded. 2007/02/28 21:11:07| 0 Objects expired. 2007/02/28 21:11:07| 0 Objects cancelled. 2007/02/28 21:11:07| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2007/02/28 21:11:07| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2007/02/28 21:11:07| Took 2.7 seconds (28993.6 objects/sec). 2007/02/28 21:11:07| Beginning Validation Procedure 2007/02/28 21:11:07| Completed Validation Procedure 2007/02/28 21:11:07| Validated 77471 Entries 2007/02/28 21:11:07| store_swap_size = 837072k 2007/02/28 21:11:08| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects 2007/02/28 21:16:51| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000000 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:16:51| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000001 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:16:58| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000002 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:16:58| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000003 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:00| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000004 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:00| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000005 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:01| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000006 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:03| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000007 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:04| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000008 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:05| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000009 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:06| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/0000000A ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:07| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/0000000B ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:09| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/0000000C ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:10| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/0000000D ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:12| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/0000000E ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:12| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/0000000F ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:15| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000010 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:16| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000011 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:17| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000012 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:18| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000013 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:20| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000014 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:22| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000015 ((13) Permission denied) 2007/02/28 21:17:22| storeUfsCreate: Failed to create I:\Proxy/cache/00/00/00000016 ((13) Permission denied) What could be the problem? Please help. Regards