HowTo analyze network bandwidth for WAN & LAN on pfSense box with Squid Proxy

jamesseen

Dear Gurus,

I noticed that there was bandwidth problem (slow) on pfSense with Squid Proxy Server installed. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7281.0.html. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7911.15.html.

The speed would not be reduced if Squid Proxy is not installed in pfSense.

How to improve the speed with Proxy Sever installed??? ???

sullrich

Search the forum. The squid package has been fixed in the last couple of days.

chudy

To Fix Squid

add this to the /boot/loader.conf

kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768
kern.maxfiles=65536
kern.maxfilesperproc=32768
net.inet.ip.portrange.last=65535

or just delete it and replace with

autoboot_delay="1"
#kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0"
hint.apic.0.disabled=1
kern.hz=100
#for squid
kern.ipc.nmbclusters="32768"
kern.maxfiles="65536"
kern.maxfilesperproc="32768"
net.inet.ip.portrange.last="65535"

you might ask why squid is so slow? its because default configuration of pfsense is router not as a server
thats why kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0" <- is set to zero. if you just simply remove this squid will be just fine.

but to tune the squid i add this
kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768
kern.maxfiles=65536
kern.maxfilesperproc=32768
net.inet.ip.portrange.last=65535

i just figure out why squid is slow. but i don't like the binary package of squid. i'll be using the squid HEAD bec of the store_rewrite feature for caching youtubes videos and other video files and mp3.