On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 16:54 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote: > On 22/12/10 04:49, donovan jeffrey j wrote: > > Greetings > > i discovered the culprit to my woes as my internet connections slowly died. It was my 2 cache drives. As they would fill, and swap, and fill, and swap.. well you get the picture. Both drives just burned up and won't mount. > > > > So im running a cache_less system, which we are finding is really quick. > > > > does this look right for intercept only no cache ? are there any performance adjustments I can do ? > > squid 3.1.9 > > > > http_port 10.0.1.1:3128 transparent > > not performance exactly but "transparent" should be written "intercept" > in 3.1+ > Hi Amos. Sorry to hijack this thread. Are you saying that for version 3.1+ we should use: http_port 10.0.1.1:3128 intercept instead of transparent? I'm currently using 3.1.9 like this: http_port 172.16.0.1:3128 transparent disable-pmtu-discovery=off Is that correct? > Otherwise it looks just fine. > > The other performance adjustmenst would be kernel and TCP stack things > to make ports available more frequently (avoiding some TIME_WAIT) and > accept jumbo packets etc. I'm not sure on the exact sysctl knobs to > tweak, they should be easy to find if you have not done them already. > > FWIW: 3.1.10 is now in the release process with several memory > consumption fixes. > > Amos