Re: [Skunkworks] SquidNT optimization

I guess you could try running squid in proxy-only mode, with disk cache disabled, to see if your storage is the bottleneck. If that's the case, you may find this useful in tweaking your filesystem performance:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc767961.aspx

Also, check you've enough memory and are not paging out.