How are you making Squid distribute the requests on the backend servers? Regards Henrik
On Monday 10 March 2003 22.13, David Nicklay wrote: > Hi, > > Brian and I have been trying to puzzle out a problem we are having > related to back end origin server connections initiated by squid. > We have squid (2.5.stable1) set up in a reverse proxy configuration > pointing at a group of origin servers which mount a number of NFS > mounts to serve content from. What we are seeing is that when one > of those NFS mount points locks up on the origin server, it will > cause a seemingly permanent change to the number of connections and > back end refreshes that the squid servers are sending to the > origins. Restarting the squid listeners fixes it, but if we do not > restart them, the number of connections and refreshes never returns > to its normal state. This is true even if the NFS mount point > comes back and the origin servers are restarted. > > I have seen this go on for over a day, when all of our timeouts are > set in minutes and seconds not hours or days. I am curious to know > why this behavior exists, and if there is anything that could be > done about it? I am asking here rather than the squid user list, > because I think it may be something fundamental to the way squid > works and not a configuration issue.
