Assuming you're running with diskd/aufs rather than ufs then I think your numbers are alright. The default caching rules are quite permissive and result in less caching than what might be possible, but more "correct" caching. You've paid for a support contract via Redhat - I suggest talking to them about it. :) Adrian On Mon, Aug 06, 2007, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > I'm running squid (squid-2.6.STABLE6-4.el5) on an old IBM x330 > server (2x 1266MHZ PIII, 1GB RAM, 2 mirrored 36GB disks for OS > and 20GB squid-spool), serving set-top-boxes' access to the > internet. > > We have a feel for the proxy maybe being slow, but can't really > pinpoint what the problem might be. Could somebody please have > a look at the below numbers to see if something stands out as > a potential performance problem ? > > Some stats from calamaris for the last 24 hours: > > Proxy statistics > ----------------- > Total amount: requests 2818623 > unique hosts/users: hosts 3427 > Total Bandwidth: Byte 15607M > Max. Bandwidth usage: MBit/sec 4.42 > Proxy efficiency (HIT [kB/sec] / DIRECT [kB/sec]): factor 10.45 > Average speed increase: % 100.25 > TCP response time of 100%% requests: msec 130 > > Cache statistics > ---------------- > Total amount cached: requests 2088373 > Request hit rate: % 74.09 > Bandwidth savings: Byte 8640M > Bandwidth savings in Percent (Byte hit rate): % 55.36 > Average cached object size: Byte 4338 > Average direct object size: Byte 10004 > Average object size: Byte 5806 > > Incoming request peak > --------------------- > 429/second > 6439/minute > 238080/hour > > > TCP-Request duration distribution > ----------------------------------------- > msec hits byte > <= 10 48% 23% > <= 100 85% 60% > <= 1000 99% 86% > > File descriptors in use by squid are normally between 50-150, with peaks of > 200-1000 once a week. > > CPU-usage is seldom above 10%, with 1-2% iowait and less than 1% system cpu. > > > > -jf -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level bandwidth-capped VPSes available in WA -
