I have a Squid box that caches for about 300 users. This is my first Squid installation. Some sites take longer to fetch in the browser, but once opened the sites load fairly quickly. For example, if I type bbc.com it would take about 3-4 seconds of waiting and staring at the blank browser page and then the page/site loads fairly quickly, almost instantaneously. It seems like there is a delay somewhere but I can't quite figure out where/what would cause this. This is my config file: acl all src all acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl localnet src static.ip.address.obfuscated/255.255.255.255 acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/255.255.248.0 acl SSL_ports port 443 # https acl SSL_ports port 563 # snews acl SSL_ports port 873 # rsync acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl Safe_ports port 631 # cups acl Safe_ports port 873 # rsync acl Safe_ports port 901 # SWAT acl purge method PURGE acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access allow purge localhost http_access deny purge http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access allow localhost acl dsl1 src static.ip.address.obfuscated/255.255.255.255 http_access allow dsl1 http_access deny all icp_access allow localnet icp_access deny all http_port 3128 transparent hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern (Release|Package(.gz)*)$ 0 20% 2880 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 acl shoutcast rep_header X-HTTP09-First-Line ^ICY\s[0-9] upgrade_http0.9 deny shoutcast acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache broken_vary_encoding allow apache extension_methods REPORT MERGE MKACTIVITY CHECKOUT cache_mgr myname@xxxxxxxxxx httpd_suppress_version_string on httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc off hosts_file /etc/hosts coredump_dir /var/spool/squid cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 2000 32 512 cache_store_log none cache_mem 256 MB maximum_object_size 1024 KB maximum_object_size_in_memory 64 KB cache_replacement_policy lru memory_replacement_policy lru
