I actually started with squid on a suse 10.2 but it had problems of its own. It would be working fine but once in a while it would have these long delays. I think it was when cache was being swapped. Which linux version do you use for your linux? Also I am not running any user authentication right now on my XP squid. On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:56 -0700, julian julian wrote: > I really never used squid on Windows plataform, but i > think it culd be run as good as in linux enviromet. > What user validation method are you implemented? a > missconfig squid.conf could be a cause. Check your > cache.log for validation erros. > > > > > > --- Jeremy Kim <jkim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Using the squid proxy is really slow. Is there > > anyway to make it faster? > > > > > > I have squid version Squid2.6STABLE18 on a XP. > > > > > > The machine I am running this on is a Dell PowerEdge > > SC 1420 Xeon CPU > > 2.80GHz and 4GB if ram. I am using three scsi > > drives. One to host the > > squid and operating system (est.75G Drive) and the > > other two drives > > (est. each 210G drives) as cache drives. > > > > > > Here are my configurations. Everything else is > > pretty much set on > > default. > > > > #Default: > > # http_access deny all > > #Recommended minimum configuration: > > # Only allow cachemgr access from localhost > > http_access allow biblical > > http_access allow manager localhost > > http_access deny manager > > # Deny requests to unknown ports > > http_access deny !Safe_ports > > # Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports > > http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports > > > > > > # And finally deny all other access to this proxy > > http_access deny all > > > > # MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS > > #Default: > > cache_mem 32 MB > > > > #Default: > > maximum_object_size_in_memory 8 KB > > > > #Default: > > memory_replacement_policy lru > > > > #Default: > > cache_replacement_policy heap GDSF > > > > #Default: > > cache_dir aufs e:/cache 512 16 256 > > cache_dir aufs f:/cache 512 16 256 > > > > #Default: > > store_dir_select_algorithm least-load > > > > #Default: > > # max_open_disk_fds 0 > > > > #Default: > > # minimum_object_size 0 KB > > > > #Default: > > # maximum_object_size 4096 KB > > > > #Default: > > cache_swap_low 90 > > cache_swap_high 95 > > > > #Default: > > # maximum_object_size 4096 KB > > > > #Default: > > cache_swap_low 90 > > cache_swap_high 95 > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Special deal for Yahoo! users & friends - No Cost. Get a month of Blockbuster Total Access now > http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text3.com
