Hello, We are using squid version squid-2.6.STABLE21-6.el5. But getting very poor performance. Our total Internet user are almost 750. At a time 500 to 600 user browse internet. all of them are getting slow response. it takes 10 to 30 second to load a page. Here I am giving you some out put. top out put... ========= top - 12:54:09 up 31 days, 5:59, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.24, 0.24 Tasks: 80 total, 1 running, 79 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.5%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 93.5%id, 4.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2075016k total, 2020432k used, 54584k free, 233784k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 96k used, 2031512k free, 1538140k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 12866 squid 15 0 100m 70m 2508 S 3 3.5 4:56.96 squid 2531 root 15 0 26744 5656 3328 S 0 0.3 1:34.82 snmpd 2583 ntp 15 0 4448 4448 3440 S 0 0.2 6:11.39 ntpd 6815 root 18 0 10936 4280 428 S 0 0.2 0:00.00 squid 2781 haldaemo 19 0 5748 3728 1604 S 0 0.2 0:00.78 hald 12716 root 15 0 10116 2808 2252 S 0 0.1 0:02.98 sshd 12746 root 16 0 10116 2808 2252 S 0 0.1 0:00.24 sshd 2565 root 18 0 9848 1972 1364 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 cupsd 12718 root 15 0 4764 1512 1200 S 0 0.1 0:00.25 bash 12750 root 15 0 4764 1512 1200 S 0 0.1 0:00.05 bash 2756 avahi 18 0 2672 1328 1152 S 0 0.1 0:00.16 avahi-daemon free -m output ============ [root@proxy253 squid]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2026 1973 53 0 228 1502 -/+ buffers/cache: 242 1783 Swap: 1983 0 1983 Processor infor ============== processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 3200.343 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 ------------------------ processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 3200.343 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 ------------------------- Could you please let me know what might be the reason for getting slow performance. We have 14 mbps of Internet bandwidth. We are doing some content filtering also with squid. Please help us. Regards, --------------------------------------------------- Md. Alamgir Shamim (Tuhin) Senior Manager || Enterprise Network Technology Operations BRAC Bank Limited | Anik Tower 220/B, Tejgaon Industrial Area, Dhaka 1208, Bangladesh Tel : +88-02-8836302-5 Ext. 5368 | Fax : +88-02-9898910 GSM - 01713481059 URL - http://www.bracbank.com