I get similar performance out of a Linux dual P3-500 Xeon box, but I run about 50 redirectors off it and have about 24Mb bandwidth. Are you running diskd? Do you have SCSI/RAID? How many peer caches are subordinate to this one? Kelly Connor Network Technician Gilbert Unified School District [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Behl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/01/2004 01:00 cc PM Subject [squid-users] Reverse proxy performance in FreeBSD 5.3 howdy, I've got a dual proc AMD64 (2gHz) FreeBSD 5.3 system running two squid processes (to take advantage of both CPUs). Each process is doing around 195 req/s, and the total bandwidth is ~40Mb/s (gig nic via bge driver). All content is being served out of memory (very little disk activity). Top shows CPU states: 16.0% user, 0.0% nice, 42.7% system, 7.6% interrupt, 33.6% idle Mem: 898M Active, 569M Inact, 179M Wired, 214M Buf, 171M Free Swap: 4069M Total, 4069M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 14598 squid 108 0 463M 459M select 0 39.2H 59.96% 59.96% squid 14605 squid 105 0 421M 416M CPU0 1 38.4H 49.95% 49.95% squid but the % system time can fluctuate up to 60 at times. My question is if this is about the type of performance I could expect, or if people have seen better. I was expecting to see much better performance, seeing how everything is being served out of memory, but maybe I'm asking too much? Is this a FreeBSD issue (anybody else with similar experience)? A majority of the cpu time being spent in system would seem to indictate such. Any help/pointers/remarks appreciated Jeff