guys, I've been using squid for 5 years in my educational institution (IM Telkom - Telkom Institute of Management) but this is the first time i encounter this problem. need your expertise. I'm using HP Proliant ML110 G5 with 320GB of SATA disk. I'm using squid 2.6 stable 16 (FreeBSD 6.3) with 100GB of squid-cache. when the cache was not yet full, there's no problem whatsoever but when the cache is full (but still 90% of the mountpoint), squid is always busy validating its objects and refusing all client connection. this is part of file /usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf ------------------------------------------------ maximum_object_size 16384 KB minimum_object_size 0 KB maximum_object_size_in_memory 8 KB cache_replacement_policy lru memory_replacement_policy lru cache_dir ufs /webcache 100000 64 256 this is the capture when the squid refusing connection -------------- (using top) ---------------------------------- CPU states: 39.5% user, 0.0% nice, 55.3% system, 5.3% interrupt, 0.0% idle PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 77059 squid 1 123 0 186M 184M RUN 0:10 86.26% squid -------------- (using systat) ---------------------------------- /0% /10 /20 /30 /40 /50 /60 /70 ad4 MB/sXXXXX tps|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -------------- (cache.log) ---------------------------------- 2009/03/20 09:54:44| httpAccept: FD 11: accept failure: (53) Software caused connection abort