troubles with Squid

Hello,
        First sorry my English, I'm from Argentina. I'm working on an Internet
Provider and we're using Squid as proxy. It's running in a Pentium 100 with
64 Mb of RAM, 40 Mb of this are for proxy, and it has 2 hard disk ultra
wide SCSI of 4 Gb each one. The Operating System is FreeBSD 2.2.6 and the
Squid is 1.1.21.
        The problem is that the proxy works very slowly. When you ask for a web
page you got it fastest without proxy. This problems problem was detected
when we are using FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 and Squid was 1.1.17 and persist with the
upgrade of software.
        I send you the configuration of proxy, if you need some aditional
information ask me. Thank a lot.

Regards.
Ingrid.

This is the configuration of proxy:

info: proxy2.sminter.com.ar:8080

dated Fri Apr 24 09:27:42 1998

Squid Object Cache: Version 1.1.21
Start Time: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:07:23 GMT
Current Time: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:27:42 GMT
Connection information for squid:
   Number of TCP connections: 247207
   Number of UDP connections: 2105
   Connections per hour: 5498.9
   Select loop called: 1395578 times, 116.954 ms avg
Cache information for squid:
   Storage Swap size: 3674 MB
   Storage Mem size: 6711 KB
   Storage LRU Expiration Age: 35.66 days
   Requests given to unlinkd: 177788
   Unused fileno stack count: 91
Resource usage for squid:
   CPU Time: 4671 seconds (2035 user 2636 sys)
   CPU Usage: 3%
   Maximum Resident Size: 39420 KB
   Page faults with physical i/o: 3850667
File descriptor usage for squid:
   Maximum number of file descriptors: 1024
   Largest file desc currently in use: 62
   Number of file desc currently in use: 39
   Available number of file descriptors: 985
   Reserved number of file descriptors: 100
Internal Data Structures:
   323701 StoreEntries
   8088 StoreEntries with MemObjects
   8088 StoreEntries with MemObject Data
   8082 Hot Object Cache Items
Accounted Memory Usage:
   StoreEntry 323701 x 52 bytes = 16437KB
   URL strings = 15995KB
   IPCacheEntry 918 x 36 bytes = 32 KB
   FQDNCacheEntry 0 x 56 bytes = 0 KB
   Hash link 8082 x 12 bytes = 94 KB
   Pool MemObject structures 8088 x 100 bytes = 789 KB (0 free)
   Pool for Request structur 128 x 4536 bytes = 567 KB (500 free)
   Pool for in-memory obj. 9244 x 4096 bytes =36976 KB (1872 free)
   Pool for disk I/O 92 x 8192 bytes = 736 KB (728 free)
   NetDB Address Entries 0 x 76 bytes = 0 KB
   NetDB Host Entries 0 x 16 bytes = 0 KB
   NetDB Peer Entries 0 x 24 bytes = 0 KB
   ClientDB Entries 230 x 304 bytes = 68 KB
   Miscellaneous = 6057 KB
   Total Accounted =77755 KB
Miscellaneous:
   Average Name-to-address lookup time: 1.046000 seconds
   Average Address-to-name lookup time: 0.000000 seconds
                 
Received on Fri Apr 24 1998 - 05:59:10 MDT