Hi Ionel, Your performance dont look that bad. Our stats roughly work out to be : 1000+ users NTLM auth Average HTTP requests per minute since start: 2990.8 with max 30% hits. (so your hits look coparable to us.) Our cache miss service time averages to about 160ms and cache hits service time about 10ms running IBM blade P4 3G cpu 1Gb ram. mirrored drive. Our links can get quite congested and we dont get complaints about the performance. Are you having internet link performance issues?? are you monitoring it (snmp/netflow) ? chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ West Australian Newspapers Group ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Privacy and Confidentiality Notice The information contained herein and any attachments are intended solely for the named recipients. It may contain privileged confidential information. If you are not an intended recipient, please delete the message and any attachments then notify the sender. Any use or disclosure of the contents of either is unauthorised and may be unlawful. Any liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Advertising Terms & Conditions Please refer to the current rate card for advertising terms and conditions. The rate card is available on request or via www.thewest.com.au Unsubscribe If you do not wish to receive emails such as this in future please reply to it with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.