[SQU] newbie question

I have recently installed squid on on gateway. It is transparently proxing
about 1000 computers. It also forwards to a parent cache for porn etc. It is
on a p3 650 with 512 mb ram. Are there any tweaking options I can set?
Here are some stats from cachemgr.

Squid Object Cache: Version 2.3.STABLE4

Start Time: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:55:40 GMT
Current Time: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 20:02:50 GMT

Connection information for squid:
        Number of clients accessing cache: 695
        Number of HTTP requests received: 181010
        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: 12.5
        ICP messages per minute: 0.0
        Select loop called: 3181906 times, 273.933 ms avg
Cache information for squid:
        Request Hit Ratios: 5min: 28.9%, 60min: 25.0%
        Byte Hit Ratios: 5min: 18.4%, 60min: 15.8%
        Storage Swap size: 271267 KB
        Storage Mem size: 8172 KB
        Storage Replacement Threshold: 1.000000
        Mean Object Size: 7.99 KB
        Requests given to unlinkd: 36662
Median Service Times (seconds) 5 min 60 min:
        HTTP Requests (All): 0.20843 0.30459
        Cache Misses: 0.35832 0.49576
        Cache Hits: 0.01309 0.01469
        Near Hits: 0.37825 0.39928
        Not-Modified Replies: 0.02592 0.02317
        DNS Lookups: 1.64528 4.98804
        ICP Queries: 0.00000 0.00000
Resource usage for squid:
        UP Time: 871630.246 seconds
        CPU Time: 415.290 seconds
        CPU Usage: 0.05%
        CPU Usage, 5 minute avg: 0.37%
        CPU Usage, 60 minute avg: 0.25%
        Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
        Page faults with physical i/o: 23038
Memory usage for squid via mstats():
        Total space in arena: 21368 KB
        Total free: 162 KB 1%
Memory accounted for:
        Total accounted: 13026 KB
File descriptor usage for squid:
        Maximum number of file descriptors: 1024
        Largest file desc currently in use: 27
        Number of file desc currently in use: 28
        Files queued for open: 0
        Available number of file descriptors: 996
        Reserved number of file descriptors: 100
        Store Disk files open: 1
Internal Data Structures:
         34432 StoreEntries
          1977 StoreEntries with MemObjects
          1968 Hot Object Cache Items
         33945 Filemap bits set
         33945 on-disk objects

Tom Broome
Network Administrator
Cook County Schools
1109 N Parrish Ave
Adel Georgia 31620
229-896-2294 Phone
229-896-3443 Fax
tom@cook.k12.ga.us

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