Peter Farrow <peter at farrows.org> wrote: > web browsing now has a high latency ... DNS is all ok ... > I note that squid uses a fair amout of CPU on the PII450 > from time to time, but can't seem to get a handle on what is > causing the delay. Could be differences in the disk / disk controller. Squid is very storage intensive, although 512MiB RAM should mitigate much of that. Run "hdparm -i" and "hdparm" (no options) on each of your IDE disks and check for DMA settings, and what the controller currently set at (the asterisk next to the modes). -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)