tuning squid (maybe off topic)

[Al - Image Hosting Services <azick%zickswebventures.com@localhost>]

Hi,

This may be a little bit off topic for this list, but I figure someone on 
here would know. I installed squid on my servers (running NetBSD 4). Right 
now, I am using it as a web accelerator. It seems to work pretty well, 
although a little bit overloaded. I found some performance tuning how to 
on the web that made a difference, but I was wondering if anyone had any 
suggestions? Also, I was wondering if squid was built without arp-acl aufs 
carp coss diskd icmp ipf-transparent pam-helper pf-transparent snmp ssl 
unlinkd, if that could help and if someone could give me some insight on 
what they do?

Also, I noticed that squid seems to be compiled to use 8192 file 
descriptors. This doesn't make sense to me, because that is all the file 
descriptors that are set on the server. Is there a way to change this 
value?

Best Regards,
Al