On Fri, Jun 08, 2007, RW wrote: > Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007, RW wrote: > >> I'm using Squid 2.6.13 locally on a FreeBSD 6.2 Desktop PC with a ufs > >> store, and I am seeing slow download speeds on TCP_HIT downloads, which > >> should be instantaneous on localhost. With cache misses I get normal > >> fluctuating speeds, but with hits I get a steady 20KB/s per connection, > >> which suggests there is some kind of rate-limiting going on. > > > > Try running aufs rather than ufs. FreeBSD-6 has perfectly functional > > threading support for disk IO. > > This is a single user PC and any I'm seeing this with a single download, > with large files. There shouldn't be any significant difference in the > download of a single 5MB file between aufs and ufs on a system with no > other workload. And it's always a round 20KB/s, if I start a second, > simultaneous download it also runs at exactly 20KB/s. > > This either a bug or a feature, I can't see 20KB/s being a disk access > bottleneck. Then post the config sans-comments. Ie: $ cat squid.conf | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$ Then we can see if you're running delay pools, what else could be causing the issue. Adrian