RE: [squid-users] Performance

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> Hi,
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> It seems that there is a lot of performance degradation if I introduce
> squid in my network. If I connect to a site without squid=20
> directly through
> my firewall, the response is quick and fast. If I connect the same
> workstation though the squid proxy which is directly=20
> connected to internet
> the response very slow.
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> Is it expected behavior or some thing wrong with my configuration.
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> My HW config is P4 1.7 GHZ Compaq desktop system with 512 MB=20
> RAM and IDE
> HDD.
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> The SW config is RH 9.0 and squid 2.5 stable 5.
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> Could anyone give me suggestion or comment on this.
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What's the overall size of your SQUID process during normal 'usage'.
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What's the process size versus the RSS (use 'top') ?

What's the output of :
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# free
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Do you have suspicous messages in cache.log ?

M.