Dear Members, In addition to below information, I have added some more info regarding machine hardware and platform. RAM = 4 GB Processors = 4 HDDs SATA having implemented RAID-5 Running on VMWARE ESXi 3.5. Should you need any info, pls let me know. Waiting for your expert opinion, please. Warm Regards, .goody. ----- Original Message ---- From: goody goody <thinkodd@xxxxxxxxx> To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 4:31:21 PM Subject: very slow browsing and page is not displaed properly Hi, Version information and some statistics collected by me are as below. At times, my users complain the browsing becomes deadly slow and we page like yahoo, after much delay is displayed scattered and pictures are not visible rather "X" sign is displayed and after few times refresh screen becomes better. proxy-br# uname -a FreeBSD proxy-br 0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- proxy-br# /usr/local/squid27/sbin/squid -v Squid Cache: Version 2.7.STABLE9 configure options: '--prefix=/usr/local/squid27' '--enable-async-io' '-enable-storeio=aufs,coss' '--enable-removal-policies=heap,lru' '--enable-snmp' '--with-openssl=/opt/ssl' '--enable-wccp' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- proxy-br# iostat -c 5 -w 3 tty da0 pass0 cpu tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id 0 138 13.88 2 0.03 0.00 0 0.00 4 0 1 0 95 0 140 11.00 1 0.01 0.00 0 0.00 11 0 5 1 83 0 133 11.00 1 0.01 0.00 0 0.00 16 0 5 1 78 0 86 16.00 0 0.01 0.00 0 0.00 13 0 4 1 82 0 132 3.07 5 0.01 0.00 0 0.00 14 0 4 1 80 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- proxy-br# 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 0 0 924M 154M 20 0 0 0 6 1 0 0 189 1178 1366 4 1 95 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- proxy-br# systat /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10 Load Average || /0% /10 /20 /30 /40 /50 /60 /70 /80 /90 /100 root idle XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX root idle XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX squid squid XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX root kernel X my squid.conf is as below -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http_port 3128 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? no_cache deny QUERY cache_mem 256 MB visible_hostname pxy #negative_ttl 0 acl PURGE method PURGE acl localhost src 127.0.0.1 http_access allow PURGE localhost http_access deny PURGE cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA memory_replacement_policy heap GDSF cache_dir aufs /cache 45000 16 256 cache_store_log /dev/null #/var/log/squid27/store.log cache_store_log none cache_swap_low 80 cache_swap_high 90 cache_log /var/log/squid27/cache.log cache_access_log /var/log/squid27/access.log half_closed_clients off ... ...acl... .... ..... #always_direct allow myiplist cache_mgr xxxx@xxxxxxxx cache_effective_user squid cache_effective_group squid logfile_rotate 0 buffered_logs on nonhierarchical_direct off prefer_direct off ie_refresh on ftp_list_width 32 ftp_passive on ftp_sanitycheck on ftp_telnet_protocol on emulate_httpd_log on -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your expert opinion is required, please. Warm Regards, .Goody.