Re: [squid-users] squid cache delay?

Hello,
Thanks for the suggestion. I checked out the faq and /dev/null does not
appear to be the issue. Memory, this box has 1gb of ram, and during these
high cpu periods i do not detect swapping. I'm suspecting that since the
cache is full squid is dumping the oldest items and taking a while to do it.
I'm wondering if adding another cache directory, changing the size of this
one, or using a different cache format will aliviate this?
Thanks.
Dave.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Elsen" <mark.elsen@gmail.com>
To: "Dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] squid cache delay?

> Hello,
> I've got a recurring problem with squid. I'm running it on a freebsd6
> box installed from the latest port. Approximately every 3 to 4 days
> internet
> access slows to a crawl, and on the squid box squid processes are up in
> cpu
> time. Additionally whenever a lan machine requests a page the squid box's
> hard disk spins up and goes crazy for about 30 seconds, then when it's
> done
> the page is finally served. I'm assuming it has something to do with the
> squid cache setup i'm running, which is only a single directory, a
> squid -k
> reconfigure relieves the problem. My squid.conf file has this:
> cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/cache 100 16 256
> I am thinking about increasing these values, would a different cache
> storage
> type help? If i add another cache directory would this problem reoccur?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
>

  - http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.46

  - Does SQUID have sufficient memory on your system ; verify that the
       squid process is not swapping.

  M.
Received on Fri Dec 16 2005 - 11:45:18 MST