[squid-users] Squid Degrading

[Alex Rousskov]

On 11/30/22 16:57, utb trialuser wrote:
> Hello, I'm running a basic Squid setup on the latest version of Ubuntu. 
> Could you help me figure out why when 15 people connect to my proxy it 
> starts degrading and websites start to take really long to load? 
> According to the log file, connections take up to 300000ms to load when 
> this happens. And via other networking tools I was able to realize that 
> packets were being dropped. Bandwidth usage tops at 6MB/s according to 
> another networking tool. Thanks.

What is your Squid version (squid --version)?

Any errors or warnings in cache.log?

Do you have a cache_dir and/or cache_mem configured in squid.conf? Do 
you have "workers" configured?

How much free RAM is left on the box when "websites start to take really 
long to load"?

Alex.