[squid-users] Configuring Squid to behave as fast as possible

Hi there!

I'm doing some experiments on caching HTTP requests in the middle of the
way between my webservers to the SOLR load balancer (lvs).

What I need to achieve is an extreme hot cache in the fastest possible
way. The trick is that objects don't live longer than 15 minutes :-(
This is because the "objects" (in Solr language, searches) are likely to
change between that 15 min period. Unfortunately, that's a requirement,
unless so far until I learn more how to write Squid plugins to play with
timeouts and stuff like that, which hope it's soon :-)

The interesting part is that the incoming traffic handled by my squid is
averaged 20Mbytes with peaks of 45Mbytes/s, with a hit ratio of 25 to
30%! It's awesome to see how great it behaves!

The reason why I send this message here, above from thank you about this
amazing software, is to see if I could get some tips I miss to suck the
most I could from Squid in the way to store/get objects as fast as
possible.

I've compiled Squid version 2.7.STABLE6 with this parameters:
'--prefix=/usr/local/squid' '--bindir=/usr/local/bin'
'--sbindir=/usr/local/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc/squid'
'--localstatedir=/var' '--mandir=/usr/local/man'
'--infodir=/usr/local/info' '--disable-internal-dns' '--enable-async-io'
'--enable-storeio=diskd,aufs,ufs,coss' '--with-aio' '--with-large-files'
'--enable-snmp' '--with-maxfd=8192'

And I attach my conf below.

Thanks in advance!

---
http_port serverPort:8983 accel vhost
http_port 3128
hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin
no_cache deny QUERY
cache_mem 7168 MB
cache_swap_low 90
cache_swap_high 95
maximum_object_size 4096 KB
minimum_object_size 0 KB
cache_replacement_policy lru
memory_replacement_policy lru
cache_dir diskd /var/cache/squid/vol1 10000 100 10
cache_dir diskd /var/cache/squid/vol2 10000 100 10
access_log       /var/log/squid/access.log
cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.log
cache_store_log none
emulate_httpd_log on
log_ip_on_direct off
redirect_rewrites_host_header off
refresh_pattern .               0       20%     4320
cache_peer loadbalancer parent 8983 0 no-query originserver login=bleh
cache_mgr me_at_me.com
cache_effective_user squid
cache_effective_group squid
coredump_dir /var/cache/squid
Greetings,
Dererk
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