I believe you misconfigured your FreeBSD, try to read the tuning(7) man page, this might help you to fine tune your FreeBSD box, or try to read this doc http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200209/squid.html
You can use the squid snmp module to monitor your squid server using mrtg, but you have to recompile your squid to support snmp. HTH, On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:24, Bopolissimus Platypus wrote: > hello all, > > i'm trying to replace FreeBSD+Squid with Mandrake9.1+Squid. > > FreeBSD+Squid works very well, but i'm working on getting our > network to be more homogeneous so it'll be easier to administer. > > I'm finding that, with the default setup (very minor configuration > of squid, just set directories, memory and disk sizes, parent), > squid works pretty well, but maybe once every two days or so > it slows down for fifteen minutes or more. > > it's not a bandwidth or upstream proxy problem since, when we > notice the slowness, if we turn off transparent proxy or switch it > to use an upstream proxy only, we don't get the slowing down. > > i realize that this is probably not enough data to give me suggestions > (and squid.conf is very large and i won't post it na lang), so i'm > actually posting to ask what things do i need to do to get more > squid diagnostics. what kinds of things do i need to be looking > at? top, of course, and maybe vmstat. but what else? is there > something i can turn on in squid that will give me memory management > debugging or diagnostics or something? i *really* don't want to do > an strace on squid :). i fear that i'll go insane if i seriously monitor > the output of that :). > > tiger -- Jimmy Lim IT Operation & Support Team Leader Tricom -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
