Hi Amos, Thank you for your reply. I did go through the access.log file but the log entries are nothing unusual. a lot of TCP_DENIED requests ..etc. What intrigues me is the high client.http_errors field ! Doesn't http_error mean that these are malformed packets ? Is there a way to configure squid to drop these packets right away.? -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Re-Unusually-High-Average-HTTP-requests-per-minute-tp4668174p4668175.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users