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 > -- > ----------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There's a moon > over Bourbon Street > tonight..."