On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:42:37 +0100 Loïc BLOT wrote: > under OpenBSD i have switched from FFS2 disk cache to mfs disk cache > and performances were massively improved. On the face of it that sounds like a bad idea. Not only does mfs have additional overheads over memory cache, but it will also waste some physical memory to store deleted objects that are no longer accessible to squid. Did you try setting noatime and enabling soft-updates before switching to mfs?