Re: [squid-users] squid cache delay?

From: Mark Elsen <mark.elsen@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:59:26 +0100

> Hello,
> I've got a recurring problem with squid. I'm running it on a freebsd6
> box installed from the latest port. Approximately every 3 to 4 days internet
> access slows to a crawl, and on the squid box squid processes are up in cpu
> time. Additionally whenever a lan machine requests a page the squid box's
> hard disk spins up and goes crazy for about 30 seconds, then when it's done
> the page is finally served. I'm assuming it has something to do with the
> squid cache setup i'm running, which is only a single directory, a squid -k
> reconfigure relieves the problem. My squid.conf file has this:
> cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/cache 100 16 256
> I am thinking about increasing these values, would a different cache storage
> type help? If i add another cache directory would this problem reoccur?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
>

  - http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.46

  - Does SQUID have sufficient memory on your system ; verify that the
       squid process is not swapping.

  M.
Received on Fri Dec 16 2005 - 09:59:30 MST

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