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.