On tis, 2008-10-21 at 13:14 -0400, jmaan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > ************************************************* > This message has been scanned by IMSS NIT-Silchar > > Dear All Squid USERS, > > Of late it been realised that many users of our present facilty proxy > server are complaining that the net accessiblity (downloading speed) has > become slow. > > A few weeks back no one felt so. What could be the possible reason for that ? There is two common causes a) Running out of memory causing a lot of swap activity. b) Disk performance insufficient. Gets noticeable when the cache has been filled and Squid starts to recycle space. With the ufs family of cache_dir stores (ufs, aufs, diskd) recycling space is often more costly than storing... > Please give me your ideas technically ? > > For your information the the downloading speed of the internet link, is > 2MB ps and the downloading capacity for each faculty is 100MM per 24 > hours. A 2Mbit link isn't much. So my guess is 'a' above. > Is it due to the low bandwidth that we are getting form the ISP (Internet > Service Provider) ? If the link is oversaturated then performance will obviously be slow.. You should see this in the link statistics (ask your ISP if they have any, many do). Regards Henrik
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