[H-GEN] Poor performance of squid-2.5 on Redhat 7.2 compared to Solaris 8 on x86

[David Jericho]

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:09:37PM +1000, Michael Anthon wrote:
> I'm guessing here and maybe you have already tested this, but are you
> certain it is squid that is the problem?  If you have a web server running
> on the machine with squid, try access a file from there via squid and see
> how it goes.  Maybe it's the network card or it's settings or some other
> network related issue.
> 
> <snippity snip>
> > Anyway we have a url we can access that indicates download speed and for
> > some reason the solis box ALWAYS leaves the Redhat box for
> dead....1500Kbps
> > vs 200-300Kbps
> >
> <snip>

I'm with Michael here. I've had squid boxes that are quite capable, and
have done on many occasions, speeds nearing full 100mbit wire speed.

Squid is a nasty beast, as there are many many factors that come into
play with respect to performance. 

I'd be checking what disk speeds compare like on the machines to start
with, what other processes are running around the place, use of
journalling or such, even hunting down documentation for optimizing
squid on linux.

Unix's not unix.[1]

[1] UNU Foundation?[2]
[2] Yes, I am avoiding work.

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David Jericho

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