On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I have made a very puzzling observation, and I would like to know if > somebody else encountered it. > > I have two servers: a PIII/1GHz running Solaris 10 with Squid > 2.6.something and a new AMD Athlon 64 x2 runing Ubuntu 8.04 alpha and > Squid 3.0.something. Both machines use a third as the local DNS > proxy/cache. The two servers, the DNS server and a workstation are > all connected to a Gigabit switch and all have Intel E1000 gigabit > network cards, with jumbo frames enabled (the switch supports jumbo > frames). The workstation dual-boots between Ubuntu 8.04 alpha and > Windows XP SP2. > > When I am browsing from Windows using Firefox 2.0, the speed of page > rendering is the same, regardless of which of the two proxies I use. > When I am browsing from Ubuntu, the proxy on the newer, faster server > seems much more sluggish, and it is getting to be annoyingly slow. > Both servers machines are pretty much idle. Squid is configured with > 384 MB of memory cache and 3 GB of disk cache on a reiserfs partition. > > There is no other activity in the network at the time. > > I have noticed the same problem last year, that was when I moved my > proxy to Solaris since it was unbearable on Linux and I did not have > the time to pursue it. But this time I would like to hunt down the > problem. > > Any pointers? Non-null, of course... > Try running some sniffer, so you can see where the delay comes in - at interface level, or browser level. Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap.