On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 Nick O'Brien <N.OBrien@canterbury.ac.uk> wrote:

> I came in on Saturday and Squid was as slow as ever, so I was wrong - it 
> is not related to the number of users accessing Squid. Following on from 
> an idea someone's email had given me I reduced the value of cache_swap by 
> 7/8 (3950 to 500). I then restarted Squid - this had no effect. But 
> when I removed the the Cache swap log file (cache_swap_log) and restarted 
> Squid - performance picked up instantly.

I had the same problem, and clearing the cache (using squid -z) and reducing
cache_swap from 3900 to 3000 fixed it for me as well.  This is with Squid
1.NOVM.9 on Digital Unix 4.0a.  In our case, the machine was paging some,
although not, we thought, to excess.  We currently have 128 MB of memory
and will be adding more memory later this fall to see if that helps.

Earl Fogel
Computing Services              phone: (306) 966-4861
University of Saskatchewan      email: earl.fogel@usask.ca