[squid-users] Squid 2/3 slower than direct access

I've installed Squid on a HP DL380 server with dual cpus, 2 Gb RAM and SCSI raid 5. It's running on Debian Sarge with little extra load. I am using this for our staff of around 100 and though this would do the job easily. It's running with all default Squid settings except Cache RAM which I've increased to 96Mb. There are no peer caches. I have checked that there are no speed and duplex setting mismatches between the proxy and firewall.
 
The squid proxy returns web pages approx. 2/3 slower than a direct connection using the same link.
 
Can some-one please give me some simple steps to increase the speed of the cache?
 
Thanks for any advice.
Received on Sat Sep 02 2006 - 03:47:21 MDT