Hi Antony thanks for your answer I tested squid with a number of different static sites. When I don't use squid, it takes nearly 2 sec and when I use, it takes nearly 30 sec! I set refresh_pattern like this: refresh_pattern . 1440 40% 40320 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private store-stale None of them cache with squid and I saw cache_miss for all requests! Cheers & Merry Christmas On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 December 2013 at 10:55:57, zeagus zpt wrote: > >> Hello squid-users, >> I think my clients wait for a long time to view web pages. >> Would you mind suggesting a way to solve this problem? >> All the Best ... > > 1. What speed interconnect do you have between clients and Squid? > > 2. What speed connection do you have between Squid and the Internet? > > 3. Access a cacheable* web page (via Squid), note the time taken. > > 4. Request the same page again from the same browser on the same machine > (still via Squid), note the time taken. > > 5. Request the same page again from the same browser on a different machine > (also going via Squid), note the time taken. > > 6. Request the same page again from either of the above machines, this time > direct (not via Squid), note the time taken. > > 7. Repeat for at least three different websites which show the problem. > > 8. Repeat when your network traffic is low, for example after employees have > gone home (if this is a commercial network). > > * "Cacheable" means a web page which Squid is allowed to cache - check Squid's > access log and/or the page headers if you're not sure. > > > Tests 3, 4 and 5 should tell you whether Squid is caching (times for tests 4 > and 5 should be notably less than test 3). > > Tests 4, 5 and 6 should tell you whether Squid is causing a problem (test 6 > should not be noticeably faster than tests 4 and 5). > > > In short - if test 6 (for all the sites you check) shows long response times, > then you either have a saturated connection to the Internet, or the sites you > are testing are simply slow. > > If test 8 also shows long response times, the sites are just slow. > > If the site is slow, and the pages you're accessing are cacheable, then Squid > should improve the access times for tests 5 and 6 - if not, start (at the very > least) with the Squid access log, to see what response times it's reporting. > > > > Happy Christmas, > > > Antony. > > -- > "How I managed so long without this book baffles the mind." > > - Richard Stoakley, Group Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, > referring to "The Art of Project Management", O'Reilly press > > Please reply to the list; > please don't CC me.
