Step 1: graph everything you can, then come back to the list with statistics. Adrian On Sun, Apr 06, 2008, Ramiro Sabastta wrote: > Hi !!! > > I installed squid on a Debian box, with 1Gb of RAM, 160 Gb of disk > and AMD Optreon Dual Core, in transparent mode. > > I configured a cache of 100Gb on disk with aufs. > > The squid works fine most of the time, but at some specific moment of > the day (for example at 6 am) the TCP transfer duration growth from 5 > seconds (this is the average) to 30 seconds aproximately. > > I think that it's something related with te box, not the squid or the > traffic, because this situation occurs for a little period of time, > when the traffic is high and sometimes, when the traffic is low too. > > Do you think If I change de cache_dir method to diskd o coss, I will > have better performance? > > Any Help? > > Thanks a lot !!! > > Kind regards. > > Ramiro -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -