Re: [squid-users] Max Object Size and Download Speeds

On 03.11.06 10:17, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> When setting Max Object size to it's default 4MB, I get good browsing
> and download speeds (large files).
> When I increase the Size to say 50MB (so that more BIG files gets
> cached), I noticed that the download speeds becomes slower. (~ 1/2)

probably because more files get cached, which leads to higher cache load.

> Is there a correlation to the Max Object size to the file-size?

yes, object size is very close the filesize + HTTP headers size

> or do you guys think it's only due to the Speed of the Hardware? BTW, this
> is a white box server on a 7200 RPM IDE disk serving ~300 users.

see FAQ on squid performance tuning.

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