Re: [squid-users] Squid hangs for 9 seconds before serving a page

Usually, I install a DNS Cache into my Squid box to get a faster responds
and decrease network load..

Rgds,

Awie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>
To: "Graham Leggett" <minfrin@sharp.fm>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid hangs for 9 seconds before serving a page

> Not normal.
>
> My guess is a DNS problem of some kind.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
> Graham Leggett wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a squid squid-2.4.STABLE6-6.7.3 server (packaged by Redhat)
> > configured as a transparent proxy.
> >
> > Accessing webpages without the proxy there results in an immediate
> > return of a result. With the squid proxy in place, an approximately 9
> > second delay is introduced between the page being submitted and the
> > result being returned.
> >
> > This same delay is apparent no matter whether squid has just started up,
> > or if it has been running for a while, and is unrelated to memory size.
> > DNS lookups are switched off.
> >
> > Is there anything else I should be checking? Could this be squid trying
> > to do ident lookups? If so, how do I switch it off - I could find no
> > options related to ident except for an ident timeout option - I set it
> > to 1 second, but it made no difference.
> >
> > I looked in the FAQ for issues relating to slowness, but it only made
> > reference to memory, which is not a problem.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Graham
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------
> > minfrin@sharp.fm "There's a moon
> > over Bourbon Street
> > tonight..."
Received on Sun Apr 06 2003 - 00:03:51 MST