Squid Performance - Default Options Tweak?

[Ow Mun Heng]

Hi, 

	Saw your message in the list, Was wondering if you made any head-way
with it?

Did you manage to solve your issues?

Did you find out what sort of tweaks were needed?

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 19:56, Kh Linux wrote:
> Thank you Livhu. I'm now trying as you and Paul suggested. I'll come back to
> you again. We have a bunch of about 100 users here.
> 
> Regards,
> Vidol
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Livhuwani Tshisikule" <livhu.tshisikule at telkomsa.net>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 6:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Squid Performance - Default Options Tweak?
> 
> 
> > On Friday 29 October 2004 13:36, Kh Linux wrote:
> > > Thank you again Paul.
> > >
> > > > Why are you forwarding DNS queries to your ISP's nameservers rather
> than
> > > > having your bind look them up itself? I find that running my own
> > >
> > > nameserver
> > >
> > > > works much better than forwarding all queries to my ISP.
> > >
> > > That is a very good question. I thought, my ISP server would handle
> queries
> > > better and more up to date in terms of root name servers information.
> > > Maybe, I was wrong.
> > > Well, i'll take your suggestion now to switch to my own DNS server. But
> one
> > > more thing, is there a major bug in the BIND version that comes with
> RedHat
> > > 9?
> > > I noticed that, we cannot stop it with 'service named stop'; I had to do
> > > 'killall named'.
> > >
> > > Thank you very much. How about Squid? Any suggestions on its default
> > > options tweak?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Vidol
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
> >
> > I had the same problem, I configured one machine as a cache nameserver,
> and
> > the other machines uses it as the nameserver. Internet surfing is fast
> now. I
> > found out that resolving names using ISP DNS takes a long time and that it
> > times out a lot and squid was not the problem. Try to use tcpdump to see
> what
> > is happening.
> >
> > Rehards
> > Livhu
> >
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Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 
CPU kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 
Neuromancer 18:06:11 up 8:14, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.52, 0.60