Hi Amos,
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 20:32:55 +1300 Amos Jeffries <squ...@treenet.co.nz>
wrote:
>Thus I am a bit surprised that Mike saw a useful improvement this
config. The expectation from me is that these rules make Squid spendmore
bandwidth re-fetching objects it does not strictly have to. A net
negative on bandwidth gains over a default proxy config.
This is indeed interesting, as I adopted the settings from
squid-deb-proxy as is without any modifications.
I tested the settings on a Debian 9 machine running squid3. My test was
a debootstrap of an unstable chroot.
Whithout these settings, the download phase was always 4 minutes (on a
ADSL 16.000 line).
With these settings applied, the first debootstrap's download phase
still took 4 minutes, but the following debootstrap's download phases
took 20 seconds or even less. I did not look into details regarding
packaging being re-fetched, because the improvement already made me
happy enough.
Thanks+Greets,
Mike
