Hello. I am puzzled to see how my bandwidth is used when running squid. I have a total of 25M/3M of bandwidth, lately I've noticed with iptraf that my external interface traffic/bandwidth is almost maxed out at 24.8M and my internal interface (squid) is only at 2.9M as a result most clients have been calling saying "their internet is slow". I'm wondering why that big of a difference on the interfaces' traffic. This is what cachemgr shows: Squid Object Cache: Version 3.1.14 Start Time: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:01:48 GMT Current Time: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:39:02 GMT Connection information for squid: Number of clients accessing cache: 113 Number of HTTP requests received: 5198204 Number of ICP messages received: 0 Number of ICP messages sent: 0 Number of queued ICP replies: 0 Number of HTCP messages received: 0 Number of HTCP messages sent: 0 Request failure ratio: 0.00 Average HTTP requests per minute since start: 684.2 Average ICP messages per minute since start: 0.0 Select loop called: 479758718 times, 0.950 ms avg Cache information for squid: Hits as % of all requests: 5min: 23.2%, 60min: 19.4% Hits as % of bytes sent: 5min: -219.3%, 60min: -314.7% Memory hits as % of hit requests: 5min: 13.2%, 60min: 9.5% Disk hits as % of hit requests: 5min: 64.6%, 60min: 62.5% Storage Swap size: 66028580 KB Storage Swap capacity: 64.5% used, 35.5% free Storage Mem size: 1042556 KB Storage Mem capacity: 100.0% used, 0.0% free Mean Object Size: 23.52 KB Requests given to unlinkd: 0 Median Service Times (seconds) 5 min 60 min: HTTP Requests (All): 0.12106 0.02069 Cache Misses: 0.24524 0.30459 Cache Hits: 0.05046 0.02899 Near Hits: 0.17711 0.22004 Not-Modified Replies: 0.00307 0.00091 DNS Lookups: 0.31806 0.17048 Please help me understand why this is happening and if there is a solution to make squid perform better. Thanks.
