squid needs about two hours to build a 8GB coss_dir on a clean partition while it is building the cache_dir the service is practically unusable slow even a 1Gb needs more than 30 minutes the same time is spend each time squid is starting and this is on a dual-cpu with U320 disks. freeBSD releng_6 amd64. ufs2, while it is building there is no high cpu-usage or disk-usage, seems to be simply slow by itself when then cache_dir is rebuild than it works ok with good performance but until getting there it is a burden is it meant to be that slow? Michel ... **************************************************** Datacenter Matik http://datacenter.matik.com.br E-Mail e Data Hosting Service para Profissionais. ****************************************************