Kurt, Since disk access must be minimal, the access_log should be "none". Make sure that the other log files are also "none". -Marcus Kurt Buff wrote:
All, I'm running squid 2.6.17 on a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. This should be mostly irrelevant, as I am trying to ameliorate a hardware issue while I get a new machine up and running. The issue is that we have extremely slow initial load of pages, which I suspect is because of slow and perhaps faulty disk access - haven't localized it to disk or controller yet. We have moved from a T1 to a DS3, and ever since people have been complaining of slow web access, which seems a bit counterintuitive. The hardware is: 2.4GHz Celeron CPU 2G RAM Single HD: ad6: 76319MB <WDC WD800JD-00MSA1 10.01E01> at ata3-master SATA150 I'm getting a fair number of this message: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=112214751 and am noticing that squid is dumping core every once in a while, though it does restart: pid 3509 (squid), uid 100: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) I've tried to solve this temporarily by preventing squid from caching at all - by adding "no_cache deny all" and "pipeline_prefetch on" to the config. What I want to make sure of is that other settings don't negate this effort. What should I strip (or add) to my configuration below? Current configuration file: http_port 3128 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? cache deny QUERY acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache broken_vary_encoding allow apache cache_mem 512 MB cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/cache 2000 16 256 logformat combined %>a %<A %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh access_log /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log combined access_log syslog combined refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 no_cache deny all 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 acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports acl our_networks src 10.0.0.0/8 192.168.8.0/24 192.168.10.0/24 192.168.11.0/24 192.168.12.0/24 192.168.13.0/24 192.168.15.0 /24 192.168.24.0/24 http_access allow our_networks http_access deny all http_reply_access allow all icp_access allow all visible_hostname zsquid.mycompany.com coredump_dir /usr/local/squid/cache pipeline_prefetch on Kurt