Re: [squid-users] tuning question

From: Steve Snyder <swsnyder@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 08:32:02 -0500

On Friday 28 December 2001 05:48 am, Van Bossche Koen wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> Thanks for replying.
> I just installed exactly the same configuration (without reiserfs and
> redhat 6.2 in stead of v7.1) on our finnish proxyserver using another ISP
> to go to the Internet. I got on that box with 100 users connected now
> about 700 HTTP requests a minute. I assume it must be our connection
> (although I checked for collisions and possible TCP errors (bandwith is
> the same)).
> I assume it is ISP related and not kernel or reiserfs, what do you think?
> My proxy is wired to a catalyst 29xx (100Mbit) and then to the router of
> our ISP togo to the Internet. There is a firewall in between. Do you have
> any idea what would be a real test to check if it is due to the ISP and
> how I would be able to prove performance is not as it should be?

The time to access each object is logged to access.log. I suggest using
some sort of log parsing software ( I like Calamaris,
http://cord.de/tools/squid/calamaris/ ) to view aggragate access times.

Presumably a slower ISP will show greater MISS/ TCP_REFRESH_MISS times than
a faster ISP.
Received on Fri Dec 28 2001 - 06:32:05 MST

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