Are you using amd64 ? I had a lot of trouble with squid3 + FreeBSD7 amd64. I was using squid 2.7 + dg + FreeSBD i386 and the server had a amazing performance. Then I switched to squid3 and fbsd7 amd64 and things became way worst. I'm currently planning to downgrade to the previous solution as soon as I can. -- "To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential." -- "To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential."