Im trying to get multiple squid servers to act as front-end web servers for my main central apache web server, here is my setup so far... I have changed the IP of the apache server that this sends traffic to, to 123.123.123.123, fyi Code: # egrep -v "^#" squid.conf | sed -e '/^$/d' acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl SSL_ports port 443 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 CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access allow all icp_access allow all http_port 80 accel defaultsite=123.123.123.123 vhost cache_peer 123.123.123.123 parent 80 0 no-query originserver name=myAccel cache_peer_access myAccel allow all hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 2000 16 256 access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.log acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? cache deny QUERY refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache broken_vary_encoding allow apache always_direct allow all coredump_dir /var/spool/squid This works wonders.. for about 4 minutes. then the requests go from half a second per a page load, to 5 to 10, then 30 or 40 seconds.., then it wont even process, the tail -f access_logs shows that its not even hitting apache any longer on the central server, so its like squid freezes up, any idea??? I have turned off the firewall on the squid server as well as the central apache server, and still doesn't help much. I read through http://squidproxy.wordpress.com/2007...s-are-hanging/ and did all of it, with no avail. P.S. I doubt this is a connection issue between the servers, as the website WITH squid loads just as fast as apache for a few minutes, then slowly goes to a hault