Please advise me on how i can make squid serve requests faster.

hardware -
celeron 733
192 Mb ram
40 gig hdd
2 x 100mbit ethernet cards

here is the squid.conf file as it stands ....

hutdown_lifetime 5 seconds


http_port 192.168.200.245:3128 192.168.200.245:8080 192.168.200.247:3128 192.168.200.247:8080


#acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
#no_cache deny QUERY

cache_effective_user squid
cache_effective_group squid

pid_filename /var/run/squid.pid

cache_access_log /home/squid/logs/access.log
cache_log /home/squid/logs/cache.log
cache_store_log none
useragent_log /home/squid/logs/useragent.log

emulate_httpd_log on

log_mime_hdrs off
# forward requests to parent proxy on port 8080
cache_peer 192.168.0.196 parent 8080 0 no-query default

acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
#can not by pass proxy for any request.
never_direct allow all

acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16
acl SSL_ports port 443 563

acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
acl CONNECT method CONNECT

# banned sights
acl porn1 url_regex sex
acl porn2 url_regex xxx
acl porn3 url_regex porn
acl porn4 url_regex fuck
acl porn5 url_regex spank
acl porn6 url_regex sluts

# Limmit concurrent connection
acl 4CONN maxconn 3


deny_info ERR_PORN porn1
deny_info ERR_PORN porn2
deny_info ERR_PORN porn4
deny_info ERR_PORN porn5
deny_info ERR_PORN porn6

deny_info ERR_3CONNECTIONS 4CONN

http_access deny porn1
http_access deny porn2
http_access deny porn3
http_access deny porn4
http_access deny porn5
http_access deny porn6

#http_access deny 4CONN localnet

http_access allow localhost
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access allow localnet
http_access deny all

icp_access deny all

# cache directories
cache_dir ufs /home/squid/cache 4000 16 256
cache_dir ufs /home/squid/cache2 4000 16 256


httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
httpd_accel_uses_host_header on



redirect_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squid/squidGuard.conf


many thanks

One thing would be to give it more ram, and a faster harddrive if that's the problem, how slow is it?

thanks..
looks like it's related to our diginet line. there is a problem..