Squid Running too slow

From: <ankh@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu Aug 3 06:38:21 2000

I am using Sun Ultra E5 (Solaris 7) as a squid 2.3 stable3 server. It is running
too slow. The cache Manager out put is given below. Can any body help me reduce
page fault and run it reasonable faster. I tried so many option as given in
FAQ. But it can't reduce the page fault.

Squid Object Cache: Version 2.3.STABLE3

Start Time: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:52:43 GMT
Current Time: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:18:10 GMT

Connection information for squid:
        Number of clients accessing cache: 133
        Number of HTTP requests received: 487305
        Number of ICP messages received: 0
        Number of ICP messages sent: 0
        Number of queued ICP replies: 0
        Request failure ratio: 0.00%
        HTTP requests per minute: 86.0
        ICP messages per minute: 0.0
        Select loop called: 4122120 times, 82.464 ms avg
Cache information for squid:
        Request Hit Ratios: 5min: 35.1%, 60min: 44.4%
        Byte Hit Ratios: 5min: 17.6%, 60min: 22.7%
        Storage Swap size: 710927 KB
        Storage Mem size: 8184 KB
        Storage LRU Expiration Age: 365.25 days
        Mean Object Size: 6.64 KB
        Requests given to unlinkd: 7045
Median Service Times (seconds) 5 min 60 min:
        HTTP Requests (All): 9.16462 3.46762
        Cache Misses: 16.59694 8.22659
        Cache Hits: 2.50793 0.25890
        Near Hits: 10.20961 3.86308
        Not-Modified Replies: 1.81376 0.23230
        DNS Lookups: 1.31787 1.20593
        ICP Queries: 0.00000 0.00000
Resource usage for squid:
        UP Time: 339927.194 seconds
        CPU Time: 7180.010 seconds
        CPU Usage: 2.11%
        CPU Usage, 5 minute avg: 4.37%
        CPU Usage, 60 minute avg: 4.86%
        Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
        Page faults with physical i/o: 1897808
Memory accounted for:
        Total accounted: 20378 KB
File descriptor usage for squid:
        Maximum number of file descriptors: 1024
        Largest file desc currently in use: 254
        Number of file desc currently in use: 240
        Files queued for open: 0
        Available number of file descriptors: 784
        Reserved number of file descriptors: 100
        Store Disk files open: 7
Internal Data Structures:
        132370 StoreEntries
          1673 StoreEntries with MemObjects
          1603 Hot Object Cache Items
        107042 Filemap bits set
        107041 on-disk objects

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