You state that response time is slow, but not which. Is that average, misses, near misses or hits? What are each of the other rates?
Where are you getting your CPU Utilization numbers from? (top, squidclient mrg:info, MRTG) What is your cache_mem line set to? How much bandwidth do you have available? How much is being used? One thing that really bit me was over-use of the url_regex acl combined with fairly complex regular expressions. That's not likely to be the problem here, but it might be something to look into. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Sturgis, Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [squid-users] Slow Squid Greetings List, I am writing for ideas on how I can increase the performance of my squid cache. I am running: RHEL ES 3.0 cache_dir aufs on ext2 squid-2.5.STABLE3-6.3E adzapper version 3.3 with wrapzap Two cache_dirs totalling 42.4 GB The hardware is: Dell PE 1650 2-Intel PIII 1133 MHz 4 GB RAM The symptom is that during our peak utilization periods, when HTTP requests get over about 750/min, the response time gets very slow, over 800 ms or so. I understand that squid is single threaded, but we are running a number of the redirector processes and it seems that the CPU workload is distributed fairly well. This is determined by examining /proc/stat with MRTG. Neither CPU seems to reach above 55% utilization so I do not think the system is CPU bound. One thing that is concerning: [EMAIL PROTECTED] squid]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3778 3756 22 0 472 2154 -/+ buffers/cache: 1129 2649 Swap: 8997 715 8282 Do you think this is significant? Should I adjust squid.conf to reduce this memory usage? Also, I do understand that reiserfs is a recommended file system over ext2; do you think it will make a large difference to change this? Any suggestions for things I can do to determine why my cache is slow or how to make improvements in performance? Thank you in advance, Grant This electronic message transmission is a PRIVATE communication which contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please notify the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message, or notify us by telephone (877-633-2436, ext. 0), and then delete it from your system.
