Re: [squid-users] Squid hangs for 9 seconds before serving a page

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 04:37:52 +0200

Not normal.

My guess is a DNS problem of some kind.

Regards
Henrik

Graham Leggett wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a squid squid-2.4.STABLE6-6.7.3 server (packaged by Redhat)
> configured as a transparent proxy.
>
> Accessing webpages without the proxy there results in an immediate
> return of a result. With the squid proxy in place, an approximately 9
> second delay is introduced between the page being submitted and the
> result being returned.
>
> This same delay is apparent no matter whether squid has just started up,
> or if it has been running for a while, and is unrelated to memory size.
> DNS lookups are switched off.
>
> Is there anything else I should be checking? Could this be squid trying
> to do ident lookups? If so, how do I switch it off - I could find no
> options related to ident except for an ident timeout option - I set it
> to 1 second, but it made no difference.
>
> I looked in the FAQ for issues relating to slowness, but it only made
> reference to memory, which is not a problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Graham
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