Re: [squid-users] Squid being slow more than a direct connection

On Sunday 25 May 2003 23.20, Sarky wrote:
> Hi Bart
> Right Well i have checked it before it was going from NS1 and 2 but
> now i even enabled its own DNS but still no joy the delay in
> browsing is actualy the time it takes to connect to it and i even
> noticed on the access log it takes time before it noticed the user
> is trying to connect. all Nameservers are coming from
> /etc/resolv.conf

Maybe your SYN backlog is too small. Symptoms indicating this is if it
takes long time to connect to the Squid port under peak load.

If you are using Linux try

  echo 1024 >/prox/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog

Regards
Henrik

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