RE: [squid-users] Performance

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:48:00 +1300 (NZDT)

>
> Marcel Grandemange wrote:
>> Good day users.
>>
>>
>> I seem to have a performance issue where my squid server doesn't seem to
>> exceed 400k on objects in cache, it is not the specs of the box as im
>> able
>> to with
>> Different proxy software achieve 8m on a P3.
>>
>> Advise? Need More info?
>>
>
>>Yes,
>> * version of squid (including release number)?
>> * some config info.
>
>
> Squid Cache: Version 3.0.STABLE9
> configure options: '--with-default-user=squid' '--bindir=/usr/local/sbin'
> '--sbindir=/usr/local/sbin' '--datadir=/usr/local/etc/squid'
> '--libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/squid' '--localstatedir=/usr/local/squid'
> '--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/squid' '--enable-removal-policies=lru heap'
> '--disable-linux-netfilter' '--disable-linux-tproxy' '--disable-epoll'
> '--enable-auth=basic ntlm digest' '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=DB NCSA PAM
> MSNT SMB squid_radius_auth YP' '--enable-digest-auth-helpers=password'
> '--enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user session unix_group wbinfo_group'
> '--enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=SMB' '--with-pthreads' '--enable-storeio=ufs
> diskd null aufs' '--enable-delay-pools' '--enable-ssl'
> '--with-openssl=/usr'
> '--enable-wccpv2' '--enable-referer-log' '--enable-useragent-log'
> '--enable-arp-acl' '--enable-ipfw-transparent' '--enable-kqueue'
> '--with-large-files' '--enable-stacktraces'
> '--enable-err-languages=Armenian
> Azerbaijani Bulgarian Catalan Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish
> French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian
> Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian-1251 Russian-koi8-r Serbian
> Simplify_Chinese Slovak Spanish Swedish Traditional_Chinese Turkish
> Ukrainian-1251 Ukrainian-koi8-u Ukrainian-utf8'
> '--enable-default-err-language=templates' '--prefix=/usr/local'
> '--mandir=/usr/local/man' '--infodir=/usr/local/info/'
> '--build=amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0' 'build_alias=amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0'
> 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/include -g'
> 'LDFLAGS=
> -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXX=c++'
> 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/include -g'
>
>
> My config is available from
> http://www.thavinci.za.net/Downloads/squid.conf
>
>
>>Specific to your problem some things to check are
>> is 400k mean 400k objects cached or 400kB/sec fetch speeds?
>> delay pools in use?
>> single cache_dir per disk spindle?
>
> 400k objects cached.
> Yes single cache_dir per disk.
>
> I have tried numerous versions of squid and many different configs for
> cache_dir non worked, also changed the hardware 3 times.
>
>>we may also need to check efficient use of access controls. Some types
>>like regex are known to cause major speed bumps.
>

Okay, I can't see anything unusual in the build or config.

All I can think of is to check its not a clash of the 2MB maximum object
size. Or the dynamic 'QUERY' cache acl setting.

Amos
Received on Sun Nov 02 2008 - 22:48:09 MST

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