Dear all:
I am installing Squid on RedHat 9 out of the Distro CDs on a Dell PowerEdge 1300 Server, Pentium III RAM 256MB. I've been trying it out for 1 week now with the default options. It seems very slow.
Could someone guide me with some useful tips to tweak the default options of the /etc/squid/squid.conf file for better performance?
Also, I installed BIND to act as the DNS server; but i configured it to forward queries to my ISP DNS. Could this be the major traffic block to my connection to ISP?
Since I started to use Squid and BIND, my ISP notified me that, my 1Mbps leased-line connection has always been saturated.
Could it be because of Squid or DNS forwarding or a virus?
Look in the logs to see what's happening.
/var/log/squid/access.log
Turn on query logging for bind (rndc querylog) if it isn't already on, then look in
/var/log/messages
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.
Paul.
