Re: [squid-users] Slow Internet Browsing - Can someone pls comment on my squid.conf file

Out of curiosity, if i leave out the cache_dir line, what settings would squid use?

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Sent: Thu, February 1, 2007 4:25 pm
To: Adam Parsons <adamp@officexpress.com.au>
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Slow Internet Browsing - Can someone pls comment on my squid.conf file

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007, Adam Parsons wrote:
> Hi, I am getting fairly slow times (this is more an observation than looking at the logs) when loading web pages. I am the only person on an ADSL2+ connection, with squid setup and caching (see squid.conf below). Does anyone have any ideas on how i could make it more responsive? Any other comments on the conf.file appreciated too. I will be installing SmartFilter on the server too, but have not as yet. The Server is running RHEL ES4, with 250GB SATA drive and 1GB Ram. Squid 2.5 Stable 14.

The configuration is pretty simple. '16 256' is a bit small for a 120 gig
cache. You might want to up that to at least 64 256.

Is the server doing anything else besides Squid? Whats 'vmstat 1' show the
CPU load is like? What about memory and disk usage?

Other than that, i'd try it out without the authentication ACLs to start with.
I'd check your nameserver configuration and make sure the nameservers return
results quickly.

Adrian

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