Hi Indunil,
I don't think that you need to recompile your kernel. Which Squid
version are you using?
squid-2.5.STABLE1-3.9
Please post your squid.conf. Saying that Squid is SLOWER could mean alot
of things. It's very vague and an exact answer is not possible.
these are rules in my squid.conf
cache_mem 32 MB
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 256
auth_param basic program /usr/bin/ncsa_auth /usr/etc/passwd
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
acl maxip max_user_ip -s 1
acl ncsa_users proxy_auth REQUIRED
acl CSB_AUTH_CRIB proxy_auth uddikah sudathf newtonf nilankab warunaa sandunm
acl CSB_AUTH_BANK proxy_auth chamikarab
acl CSB_AUTH_SEY proxy_auth manjulan sriyanim apsaraa rohang gehanp
acl CSB_AUTH_AUD proxy_auth mahesht thivankat
acl DOMAINS_SEY dstdomain .eseylan.com .cbsl.lk .eseylanet.com
acl DOMAINS dstdomain .crib.lk .cbsl.lk
acl DOMAINS_CSB dstdomain .nsb.lk .peoplesbank.lk .nationstrust.com
.hnb.lk .mbslbank.com .sampath.lk .hsbc.lk .combank.net .eseylan.com
.bankofceylon.net
acl DOMAINS_AUD dstdomain .cbsl.lk .nsb.lk .peoplesbank.lk
.nationstrust.com .hnb.net .mbslbank.com .sampath.lk .hsbc.lk
.combank.net .bankofceylon.net .icasrilanka.com .centralbanklanka.org
.auditnet.org .bankaudit.net .balancescorecard.org .netbankaudit.com
.isaca.org .accaglobal.com .certifiedinternalauditor.org .bba.org.uk
.accountingweb.co.uk .cima.org.uk .iasc.org.uk .icaew.co.uk
.kpmg.co.uk .yahoo.com .auditserve.com .managementhelp.org .lankae.com
.ceylicosavings.lk .cim.co.uk .amazon.com .ceylincosavings.lk
.eseylan.com .eseylanet.com .dfccbank.com .unionb.com
.standardchartered.com/lk .icicibank.com .pabcbank.com
#http_access deny maxip
http_access deny CSB_AUTH_SEY !DOMAINS_SEY
http_access deny CSB_AUTH_CRIB !DOMAINS
http_access deny CSB_AUTH_BANK !DOMAINS_CSB
http_access deny CSB_AUTH_AUD !DOMAINS_AUD
http_access allow ncsa_users
Also posting your iptables firewall could help. Are you running Squid in
transparent mode? How many users are you serving?
No firewall is running on that box. No trasparent mode as well. Just
running as usual.
Clients are configured to use squid proxy server with ip address and
port 3128 in their
Internet Explore and Firefox .
But there is a filrewall running in front of that squid box.
about 27 users are using squid.
Can you post the info from squidclient mgr:info ?
pls see below
[root@mail root]# squidclient mgr:info
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: squid/2.5.STABLE1
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:01:36 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain
Expires: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:01:36 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:01:36 GMT
X-Cache: MISS from csbsl.com
Proxy-Connection: close
Squid Object Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE1
Start Time: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:47:47 GMT
Current Time: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:01:36 GMT
Connection information for squid:
Number of clients accessing cache: 20
Number of HTTP requests received: 768
Number of ICP messages received: 0
Number of ICP messages sent: 0
Number of queued ICP replies: 0
Request failure ratio: 0.00%
Average HTTP requests per minute since start: 5.7
Average ICP messages per minute since start: 0.0
Select loop called: 28597 times, 280.740 ms avg
Cache information for squid:
Request Hit Ratios: 5min: 0.0%, 60min: 4.0%
Byte Hit Ratios: 5min: 13.3%, 60min: 5.2%
Request Memory Hit Ratios: 5min: 0.0%, 60min: 10.0%
Request Disk Hit Ratios: 5min: 0.0%, 60min: 90.0%
Storage Swap size: 18420 KB
Storage Mem size: 796 KB
Mean Object Size: 12.38 KB
Requests given to unlinkd: 5
Median Service Times (seconds) 5 min 60 min:
HTTP Requests (All): 0.00000 4.07741
Cache Misses: 0.00000 18.48929
Cache Hits: 0.00000 0.01235
Near Hits: 0.00000 0.00000
Not-Modified Replies: 0.00000 0.00000
DNS Lookups: 0.00000 2.45286
ICP Queries: 0.00000 0.00000
Resource usage for squid:
UP Time: 8028.333 seconds
CPU Time: 1.160 seconds
CPU Usage: 0.01%
CPU Usage, 5 minute avg: 0.00%
CPU Usage, 60 minute avg: 0.01%
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 501
Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
Total space in arena: 3632 KB
Ordinary blocks: 3461 KB 51 blks
Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
Holding blocks: 200 KB 1 blks
Free Small blocks: 0 KB
Free Ordinary blocks: 171 KB
Total in use: 3661 KB 96%
Total free: 171 KB 4%
Total size: 3832 KB
Memory accounted for:
Total accounted: 1396 KB
memPoolAlloc calls: 130764
memPoolFree calls: 122430
File descriptor usage for squid:
Maximum number of file descriptors: 1024
Largest file desc currently in use: 22
Number of file desc currently in use: 19
Files queued for open: 0
Available number of file descriptors: 1005
Reserved number of file descriptors: 100
Store Disk files open: 0
Internal Data Structures:
1515 StoreEntries
176 StoreEntries with MemObjects
174 Hot Object Cache Items
1488 on-disk objects
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Thank you
Indunil Jayasooriya
