[Soekris] Squid slow on Soekris 4801-60 ?

[Jeff Quast]

On 12/7/06, Ted Phelps <phelps at gnusto.com> wrote:
> "Jeremy R. Geeo" writes:
> > I've chosen to use the 4801-60 in a similar role running Linux and am
> > able to saturate my (also) 6mbit cable connection through squid. When
> > I'm pulling straight from out of the squid cache I will generally see
> > upwards of 2MB/s. So, it is a workable setup on the Soekris (4801-60).
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Not a great deal of help here; but I'd say, you're left with either
> > OpenBSD or squid.
>
> Or the choice of disk.  Jeremy, what sort of persistent storage are you
> using?  I can imagine an IDE disk being a bit quicker than a CF card...
>
> Cheers,
> -Ted

systat(1) can help you figure out the bottleneck. interrupts, disk,
cpu exaustion, etc.

Also http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030208023845 is more
about tuning openbsd on high end servers for high traffic cases, but
it does go into some detail on how to find bottlenecks on your server
when they occur.