Hi Everybody, We have a Squid 2.6.STABLE13 running on an OpenBSD box along with packet filtering(earlier we used to run it on FedoraCore4). The machine is a P4 3.4 GHz with 1 GB RAM and running a cache of 30 GB. The external link speed is 4 Mbps. We use the DNS server of our ISP .the internet connection is pathetic . The details of the output of the squid client is as follows. Squid Object Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE13 Start Time: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:55:51 GMT Current Time: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:19:24 GMT Connection information for squid: Number of clients accessing cache: 761 Number of HTTP requests received: 436323 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: 699.7 Average ICP messages per minute since start: 0.0 Select loop called: 578899 times, 64.628 ms avg Cache information for squid: Request Hit Ratios: 5min: 28.4%, 60min: 23.5% Byte Hit Ratios: 5min: 19.2%, 60min: 19.5% Request Memory Hit Ratios: 5min: 12.1%, 60min: 13.9% Request Disk Hit Ratios: 5min: 41.5%, 60min: 41.7% Storage Swap size: 13067832 KB Storage Mem size: 190880 KB Mean Object Size: 19.80 KB Requests given to unlinkd: 0 Median Service Times (seconds) 5 min 60 min: HTTP Requests (All): 11.37373 8.22659 Cache Misses: 15.72468 12.00465 Cache Hits: 5.06039 4.07741 Near Hits: 14.89826 12.00465 Not-Modified Replies: 3.86308 3.28534 DNS Lookups: 6.80420 4.17707 ICP Queries: 0.00000 0.00000 Resource usage for squid: UP Time: 37413.255 seconds CPU Time: 34220.020 seconds CPU Usage: 91.46% CPU Usage, 5 minute avg: 95.51% CPU Usage, 60 minute avg: 97.02% Process Data Segment Size via sbrk(): 0 KB Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 65 Memory accounted for: Total accounted: 275284 KB memPoolAlloc calls: 52025731 memPoolFree calls: 49328868 File descriptor usage for squid: Maximum number of file descriptors: 1024 Largest file desc currently in use: 855 Number of file desc currently in use: 675 Files queued for open: 7 Available number of file descriptors: 342 Reserved number of file descriptors: 100 Store Disk files open: 27 IO loop method: kqueue Internal Data Structures: 662573 StoreEntries 29686 StoreEntries with MemObjects 29517 Hot Object Cache Items 660137 on-disk objects A few of my Squid configuration which i think you guys may require are as follows: cache_mem 400 MB maximum_object_size 20480 KB maximum_object_size_in_memory 20 KB fqdncache_size 4096 cache_dir aufs /var/squid/cache 32768 64 256 cache_dns_program /usr/local/libexec/dnsserver dns_children 32 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl SSL_ports port 443 563 5223 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 563 5223 # https, snews acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager all # Deny requests to unknown ports http_access deny !Safe_ports # Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports # one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user http_access deny to_localhost reply_body_max_size 20971520 allow all append_domain .xxx.xx.xx Is the number of request on my server too high.even my CPU utilization is too high.Do we need to upgrade the machine .Please help Regards Preetish