Possible performance issue?
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Regardless of your LAN speed, your WAN determines your download rate. Depending on your Internet package, 10MB/s may be respectable. What do you normally get when downloadng the same file from the same location? What happens if you temporarily disable Squid and then try again with a different large file from the same location?
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If Squid is turned off, the most I can get is about 1000KB/s on downloads. With Squid turned on and after it's been cached, I get about 10MB/s.
To my knowledge, if Squid has cached something, it should transmit it over the local network as fast as the weakest link allows.
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Unless you have changed the defaults, squid won't cache a file that large. The default cache size is only 100MB to begin with, and I think the maximum object size for file caching is 4KB.
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i have the same problem on a fresh install of pfsense with no packages installed i have my topic is at https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=79809.0 if anyone could help me please i really wanna start using this but i might not if i can only get a max of 10mb a sec from the pfsense box and i get 100mb/25 without it
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@KOM:
Unless you have changed the defaults, squid won't cache a file that large. The default cache size is only 100MB to begin with, and I think the maximum object size for file caching is 4KB.
I changed the defaults.
Here's the current settings.
10240MB (10GB) of HD space.
32 level 1 directories.
65536KB (64MB) maximum file size to cache.For the RAM:
512MB of space being used for cache.
1MB is the maximum file size to cache. -
i have the same problem on a fresh install of pfsense with no packages installed i have my topic is at https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=79809.0 if anyone could help me please i really wanna start using this but i might not if i can only get a max of 10mb a sec from the pfsense box and i get 100mb/25 without it
I'm not having performance issues downloading files from the Internet like you, my issue is the downloading speed from the cache.
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What kind of AP and which port did you use. Some times these AP might be gigabit but the WAN is 10/100 which would explain the 100Mbps(10MBps).
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I'm thinking maybe your RAM is too low. Squid requires something like 100MB per 1GB of cache, so if you've got a 10GB cache, you need about 1GB RAM or it will start swapping. That might be killing you right there.
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You are using bytes/bits interchagably here and it's confusing.
Can you go back through and give us the following:
Your ISP speed in Mb/s - Megabits per second.
Your NIC speed in Mb/s - Megabits per second.
Your download speed with cache, and without cache in Megabits per second.
Thanks!
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Here's a pretty useful converter for bytes to bits.
I know this seems silly, but we just need to have all of the information laid out and converted properly. Hope you understand!
http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/
