[plug] Slow proxy

[Simon Scott]

	Just a few things to do

	a) Add more ram
	b) Make sure you arent running daemons you dont need to be. 
	c) Add more ram :)

	If you are running a heap of service you never use, it will chew ram
and quite possibly it is slow because it is swapping. Check your mem/swap
usage. With these sorts of things you do not wanna swap.

	Also, if you are running squid, the hardware requirements are quite
high. Quite possibly you simply do not have the grunt.






	From:	Kevin Shackleton <kevins at wn.com.au> on 08-06-2001 07:23 AM
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	Subject:	[plug] Slow proxy

	I set up a proxy server with RH6.2 (it had 16 MB RAM and RH7.1 needs
	more to install).  In the setup process it didn't detect the NE2000
	card, so I added a couple of lines to conf.modules and it now works.

	However, it's running very slow as a proxy server.  I recall a few
weeks
	(?) ago there was a thread about if the default route was properly
set
	up, with a couple of examples of what the routing table looked like
on a
	working proxy server.  Of course I can't recall the subject and
can't
	see the thread (we've had a lot on ADSL lately eh).  I suspect my
	problem is something that the automatic network setup does that I
	haven't done by stuffing config files manually (yes - I have done
	resolv.conf!).

	btw this is the fourth proxy server I've set up in the last few
weeks,
	for local businesses.  The local shop has been straight Microsoft -
	that's ok for schools, who get the stuff basically free, but
businesses
	aren't going to pay around $4k for a proxy server (NT included).  So
the
	shop's going Linux - good pocket money for me.

	K.



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