Hi Chris, The biggest beef was the fact that Squid would just seem to stall on some downloads, for example MS updates on the client machines would all halt consistently after doing about 10% of the latest .net udpates. Clear the cache on squid and empty the browser caches, clear it all out and start again, and it still did it everytime. Changed the motherboard to a faster one and the problem goes away....bizarre to say the least.... Load average on the machine was always low (<.2 ) The 933 PIII with the sames disks (just transplanted) and the same network cards and RAM, works fine, the PII 450 on Red Hat 9 also works fine. It might be a 2.6 kernel issue with PIIs maybe (a bit far fetched I agree but possible) With the PIII installed its like the internet connection has 1/10 the latency... P. Chris Mauritz wrote: > Peter Farrow wrote: > >> I upgraded the motherboard to a 933 MHz PIII, same ram and disk >> arrangement, >> >> Problem went away... >> >> Seems a PII 450 can't cut it on Centos 4.2.... but it is an old >> machine anyway... > > > > > That's good news. I have some older P3-733/512mbRAM 1RU machines that > were lightly used that are being replaced. I was a bit nervous about > deploying a couple of them as firewall machines, but I suspect they'll > still outperform an ancient Cisco PIX 520 for satellite office duty. > > Cheers, > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos