[Soekris] Squid slow on Soekris 4801-60 ?

[Rod Whitworth]

On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:20:31 +0100, Sebastian Gebhard wrote:

>> 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 !)


But have a good think about this (from Bob Beck):
http://64.151.140.130/archives/openbsd/2005-08/0141.html

Rod/

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