On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 03:12, Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 08 Nov 2009, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> During the normal work out at my company, the squid proxy is >> reasonably responsive, and seems to work well. However, after roughly >> 5pm each day, through the night and all during the weekend, web browsing >> is very slow, with pages taking a very long time (30+ seconds, to >> sometimes minutes) to load. >> >> Does anyone have some suggestions on where I might start looking at >> this problem? I haven't found anything in the logs that I can detect >> as relevant. Stopping and starting squid makes no difference. > > The first thing I'd be inclined to try is to connect directly, bypassing > squid and see does the problem go away. If it's quick to connect directly, > then squid is probably where the issue is. If you still see the delays > going direct then it's probably something else (eg high contention on your > link). > > Gavin That's good troubleshooting, but the firewall only allows the squid server out on ports 80 and 443. I'll have to see if I can convince management to allow it for troubleshooting purposes. Kurt
