Hi Antony,
Thanks for the reply. I have made changes in squid.conf as per your suggestion and have allocated 20 GB of Hard disk space.
Squid server at my location handles http/https requests for more than 500 hosts. But at peak hours squid usually performs very slow and browser takes 1-2 minutes just to serve google home page and more time than that for heavy web page.
I have verified network link utilization & found it consumes not more than 15 mb whereas link bandwidth is of 45mb but still squid serves web pages very slow to client hosts.
Any suggestions in squid configuration to overcome this issue would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Krishna.
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 09:06:22 +0530
From: Krishna Kulkarni <krishna26kulkarni@xxxxxxxxx>
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Dear Team
I am new to squid.. I have installed squid 3.5 on CentOS 6.7. As a
configuration part, I have kept most of the things default. Please advice
on how to allocate cache memory of 20 GB to squid. I got to know that, more
cache memory would increase performance of squid..
Thanks,
Krishna
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 10:16:28 +0200
From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@xxxxxxxxxx.source.it >
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On Sunday 23 October 2016 at 05:36:22, Krishna Kulkarni wrote:
> I am new to squid.. I have installed squid 3.5 on CentOS 6.7. As a
> configuration part, I have kept most of the things default. Please advice
> on how to allocate cache memory of 20 GB to squid.
Do you mean cache memory, or disk cache?
If you mean memory (RAM) and you have enough of this in your system (eg: 32
Gbytes or more), then find the section in squid.conf which starts with:
# MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
And read about the tag "cache_mem".
To set this value (normally 256 Mbytes) to 20 Gbytes, set:
cache_mem 20 GB
If, on the other hand, you do not mean memory, but you mean disk cache, then
find the section in squid.conf with starts with:
# TAG: cache_dir
and read that section.
Pay particular attention to the line which says:
# cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
And then later there is an example:
# cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid3 100 16 256
Uncomment that line and change the 100 (Megabytes) in that line to 20000 (for
20 Gigabytes) and perhaps also adjust the 16 to something like 64 or even 256
- for a large cache you don't want a few directories with lots of entries
each, so it's worthwhile creating lots of directories to keep the number of
files in each down.
> I got to know that, more cache memory would increase performance of squid..
What do you mean by "performance"?
Antony.
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 03:39:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: reinerotto <augustus_meyer@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: external_acl_type problem
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1)
According to
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/external_acl_type/
in squid.conf, this
external_acl_type check_delay ttl=0 cache=0 %SRC /etc/squid/check_delay.sh
should start 0 helpers immediately after squid (3.5.22) start-up.
However, I always see 5.
2)
I often see this:
Sat Oct 22 23:51:18 2016 user.alert syslog: The check_delay helpers are
crashing too rapidly, need help!
Sat Oct 22 23:51:18 2016 local4.notice squid[21677]: Squid Parent: (squid-1)
process 27685 exited with status 1
Still trying to trace down the problem, I notice, that in this case some
helpers still kept alive, although
I expect them to be killed, too, in case squid-1 exits.
I need to add, that I am running squid on an embedded system, cross-compiled
for MIPS.
So there _might_ be some assumptions made for "standard LINUX" squid, which
are not true in my case.
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:15:53 +0600
From: Yuri Voinov <yvoinov@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Slowness in Squid
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Keep in mind - a huge in-memory cache does not always give the
acceleration. Moreover, in most cases you can get the opposite effect
expected. It is a common misconception - that the giant memory cache
will give a giant performance gain.
23.10.2016 9:36, Krishna Kulkarni пишет:
>
> Dear Team
> I am new to squid.. I have installed squid 3.5 on CentOS 6.7. As a
configuration part, I have kept most of the things default. Please
advice on how to allocate cache memory of 20 GB to squid. I got to know
that, more cache memory would increase performance of squid..
>
> Thanks,
> Krishna
>
>
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 13:37:04 +0200
From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 23.10.16 17:15, Yuri Voinov wrote:
>Keep in mind - a huge in-memory cache does not always give the
>acceleration. Moreover, in most cases you can get the opposite effect
>expected. It is a common misconception - that the giant memory cache
>will give a giant performance gain.
doesn't that imply kind of effectiveness?
>23.10.2016 9:36, Krishna Kulkarni пишет:
>> I am new to squid.. I have installed squid 3.5 on CentOS 6.7. As a
>configuration part, I have kept most of the things default. Please
>advice on how to allocate cache memory of 20 GB to squid. I got to know
>that, more cache memory would increase performance of squid..
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:40:46 +0600
From: Yuri Voinov <yvoinov@xxxxxxxxx>
To: squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org
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This effect is good known to all who have worked with relational
databases. In fact, it is typical in general for all caches except
purpose-built highly scalable systems.
23.10.2016 17:37, Matus UHLAR - fantomas пишет:
> doesn't that imply kind of effectiveness?
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