Thumb rule for a fast squid through my experience is spread it out on more disks
use as much ram as you can afford use reiserfs decrease the max cached size object compile squid with more threads For replacement policies, it would depend on your setup (Check the FAQ, you will find a paper on replacement policies) shantanu -----Original Message----- From: Milind Nanal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 4:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [squid-users] Performance tuning Squid box for ISP traffic My squid cache (with WCCP2) is running on FreeBSD 5.2 operating system for an ISP. This is running fine but I want to tune it for better performance. I have used HP DL 140 hardware with 80 GB IDE hard disk & 512 MB RAM. 1) How do I check the HIT rate of my Squid BOX. Any utility. I have tried couple of access log analyzer but those are taking long time processing & scanning the log files ? 2) Any fine tune parameters for better performance rather than using default values in squid.conf ? 3)would like to explore more on different cache replacement policies LUR, GDSF, LFUDA which one is suitable of an ISP class SQUID box ? Regards, Milind ************************************************************************ **** ************* NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, Because Impossible itself says - I'M POSSIBLE ************************************************************************ **** ************* -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.7 - Release Date: 12/7/2004 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.7 - Release Date: 12/7/2004
