Re: [SQU] Squid is slower than MS Proxy!!!

On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 zamani@tmcso.com wrote:

> I have two proxy server:
> 1. MS Proxy 2.0 , NT 4.0 on P-II-300, 128-MB RAM, Hard IDE 8.0 GB
> 2. Squid 2.2 , RedHat 6.2 on P-III-500, 128-MB RAM, Hard SCSI 8.0 GB

> Both in LAN which have a 64-kbps connection to internet.
> Squid is slower than MS Proxy in browsing some web site but in
> downloading via ftp squid is faster! What may be problem? Please
> help me.

Please tell us more. I used to run Squid on a 486/66 processor with an
ISA bus, 16MB of RAM and 4GB IDE disk and found the machine to be
overpowered for just a 64kbps link, so something is wrong in your Squid
setup.

Does it "feel" like there is a timeout that occurs? For example, if you
go to a site, is there a fixed delay of 30 seconds or something like
that?

You may want to send us a line from your access.log that shows the
problem.

Incidentally, seeing that you're running NT and Linux side by side, you
might be an NT shop that is trying out Linux. In that situation, I see a
lot of people making mistakes in their DNS configuration. You wouldn't
happen to run you DNS server on NT, would you?

Cheers,

                                -- Bert

Bert Driehuis -- driehuis@playbeing.org -- +31-20-3116119
If the only tool you've got is an axe, every problem looks like fun!
Received on Sun Aug 13 2000 - 07:38:26 MDT