Thanks for replies, 1. i have tried squid 3.0 stable 14 for few weeks but the problems were there and performance issues was also severe. as we had previously 2.5 stable 10 running that's why i reverted to it temporarily. further i have squid 3.0/14 in place as i have install 2.5 in separate directry and i can squid 3.0/14 run it anytime. i will also welcome if you tell me the most stable version of squid. 2. secondly we are using RAID 5 and have very powerfull machine at present as compared to previous one, and previous was working good with the same amount of traffic and less powerfull system. 3. thirdly i have gigabit network card but yes i have 100 mb ethernet channel, but as defined in step 2 same link was working superb in previous setup. 4. i could not get chris robertson question regarding processors, i have two dual core xeon processors(3.2 ghz) and i captured stats at peak hours when performance was degraded. So what should i do??? Regards, --- On Wed, 7/1/09, Chris Robertson <crobertson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Chris Robertson <crobertson@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: squid becomes very slow during peak hours > To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 2:25 AM > goody goody wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I am running squid 2.5 on freebsd 7, > > As Adrian said, upgrade. 2.6 (and 2.7) support kqueue > under FreeBSD. > > > and my squid box respond very slow during peak > hours. my squid machine have twin dual core processors, 4 > ram and following hdds. > > > > Filesystem Size > Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/da0s1a 9.7G 241M > 8.7G 3% / > > devfs 1.0K > 1.0K > 0B 100% /dev > > /dev/da0s1f 73G > 35G 32G > 52% /cache1 > > /dev/da0s1g 73G > 2.0G 65G > 3% /cache2 > > /dev/da0s1e 39G > 2.5G 33G > 7% /usr > > /dev/da0s1d 58G > 6.4G 47G 12% > /var > > > > > > below are the status and settings i have done. i need > further guidance to improve the box. > > > > last pid: 50046; load averages: > 1.02, 1.07, 1.02 > > > up > > > > 7+20:35:29 15:21:42 > > 26 processes: 2 running, 24 sleeping > > CPU states: 25.4% user, 0.0% nice, 1.3% > system, 0.8% interrupt, 72.5% idle > > Mem: 378M Active, 1327M Inact, 192M Wired, 98M Cache, > 112M Buf, 3708K Free > > Swap: 4096M Total, 20K Used, 4096M Free > > > > PID USERNAME THR > PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE > C TIME WCPU COMMAND > > 49819 sbt 1 105 > 0 360M 351M > CPU3 3 92:43 98.14% squid > > 487 root > 1 96 0 4372K > 2052K select 0 57:00 3.47% natd > > 646 root > 1 96 0 16032K 12192K select > 3 54:28 0.00% snmpd > > > SNIP > > pxy# iostat > > tty > da0 > pass0 > cpu > > tin tout KB/t tps > MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in > id > > 0 126 > 12.79 5 > 0.06 0.00 0 > 0.00 4 0 1 0 95 > > > > pxy# vmstat > > procs memory > page > disks > faults cpu > > r b w avm > fre flt re pi po > fr sr da0 > pa0 in sy cs > us sy id > > 1 3 0 458044 103268 > 12 0 0 0 > > 30 5 0 0 > 273 1721 2553 4 1 95 > > > > Those statistics show wildly different utilization. > The first (top, I > assume) shows 75% idle (or a whole CPU in use). The > next two show 95% > idle (in effect, one CPU 20% used). How close (in > time) were the > statistics gathered? > > > > > some lines from squid.conf > > cache_mem 256 MB > > cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA > > memory_replacement_policy heap GDSF > > > > cache_swap_low 80 > > cache_swap_high 90 > > > > cache_dir diskd /cache2 60000 16 256 Q1=72 Q2=64 > > cache_dir diskd /cache1 60000 16 256 Q1=72 Q2=64 > > > > cache_log /var/log/squid25/cache.log > > cache_access_log /var/log/squid25/access.log > > cache_store_log none > > > > half_closed_clients off > > maximum_object_size 1024 KB > > > > if anyother info required, i shall provide. > > > > The types (and number) of ACLs in use would be of interest > as well. > > > Regards, > > .Goody. > > > > Chris > >