[Soekris] Squid slow on Soekris 4801-60 ?

[Sebastian Gebhard]

> Ted Phelps 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...
> >   
> 
> Absolutely! I've seen pretty significant variances even using different 
> hard drives, which is what I'm using for my persistent storage. Though, 
> in his case, as I understand, he is planning to forgo the persistent 
> cache and only have squid filter the web requests. Should be a workable 
> solution for him - especially without a persistent store.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> > Cheers,
> > -Ted
> >   

Well,
actually that's exactly the same way I want it.
I want to use squid for filtering and the whole system run from a compactflash mounted ro with a /var and /tmp (and of course some simlinked /etc files) on a mfs which is rsynced daily and on rebooting and shutdown. 
the file system things work, but tomorrow I will look for the bottleneck using the help from the other mail (Thanks for that !)

greets,

sege