[squid-users] Squid-2.3 and Solaris: very slow, but no bottleneck?

Hi,

I tried to find an answer in the FAQ and in the mailinglistarchive,
so I ask in here:

I have a Netra T1 (SUN Box, 2 disks, 1GB RAM ) with Solaris 8 and
Solaris Disksuite for Mirroring the partitions of the disks. We
currently run there a Squid/2.3.STABLE4 with some Filesystems for
caching. We increased the number for the maximum_object_size to
128M, but everything else should be pretty default.

Our problem is, that this proxy is really slow. We compared it
against a linuxbox with the same CPU-Speed and the linuxbox nearly
tripled the speed of the Solaris-Box. Unfortunately, we can not take
the linuxbox, since our environment only allows Solaris-Installations.

I checked with iostat, mpstat and all the other usual
performance-tools but I was unable to find a bottleneck within the
operating system which would explain the slow response of the squid.

We have not yet changed any kernel parameters, but this shouldn't be
a problem.

Is this a known problem? What kind of logfiles would you need to
maybe find out what is going wrong? At least I can not see any
problems in the squid.out or the other logfiles...

Ciao, Hanno

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