Re: [squid-users] it was a slow death

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 16:54 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 22/12/10 04:49, donovan jeffrey j wrote:
> > Greetings
> > i discovered the culprit to my woes as my internet connections slowly died. It was my 2 cache drives. As they would fill, and swap, and fill, and swap.. well you get the picture. Both drives just burned up and won't mount.
> >
> > So im running a cache_less system, which we are finding is really quick.
> >
> > does this look right for intercept only no cache ? are there any performance adjustments I can do ?
> > squid 3.1.9
> >
> > http_port 10.0.1.1:3128 transparent
>
> not performance exactly but "transparent" should be written "intercept"
> in 3.1+
>
Hi Amos.

Sorry to hijack this thread.

Are you saying that for version 3.1+ we should use:

http_port 10.0.1.1:3128 intercept

instead of transparent?

I'm currently using 3.1.9 like this:

http_port 172.16.0.1:3128 transparent disable-pmtu-discovery=off

Is that correct?

> Otherwise it looks just fine.
>
> The other performance adjustmenst would be kernel and TCP stack things
> to make ports available more frequently (avoiding some TIME_WAIT) and
> accept jumbo packets etc. I'm not sure on the exact sysctl knobs to
> tweak, they should be easy to find if you have not done them already.
>
> FWIW: 3.1.10 is now in the release process with several memory
> consumption fixes.
>
> Amos
Received on Fri Dec 24 2010 - 12:32:47 MST