Re: [squid-users] Number of Objects Inside aufs Cache Directory

2013-09-02 Thread Golden Shadow
tion will handle only the 4-7 level and leave all the rest to the kernel. For now it's a dream and still TIER-1 TIER-2 and other providers use squid and they are happy so it's not the software that blame for something that doesn't work as expected. Regards, Eliezer On 09/03/2013 12:4

Re: [squid-users] Well, this is what I concluded about using squid!

2013-09-02 Thread Golden Shadow
l also reduce the number of duplicate questions on this list, I guess. Thanks once again and I really appreciate your support. Best regards, Firas >Hi Firan, >  Sorry to hear you have had such a bad experience with Squid. Some >comments inline ... >On 2/09/2013 10:13 a.m.

Re: [squid-users] Number of Objects Inside aufs Cache Directory

2013-09-02 Thread Golden Shadow
an a few hundred files." Best regards, Firas From: Amos Jeffries To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 3:33 AM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Number of Objects Inside  aufs Cache Directory On 2/09/2013 8:40 a.m., Golden Shadow wrote: &g

[squid-users] Well, this is what I concluded about using squid!

2013-09-01 Thread Golden Shadow
I've tried squid previously only in a lab environment. Over the last 3 months though, I had the chance to try squid in a real environment, in which the TPROXY squid I installed receives around 25000 http requests per minute.  Unfortunately, I've concluded that if someone was to install squid in

[squid-users] Number of Objects Inside aufs Cache Directory

2013-09-01 Thread Golden Shadow
Hello there! I've read that the number of first level and second level aufs subdirectories should be selected so that the number of objects inside each second level subdirectory should be no more than few hundreds. In one of the subdirectories of the following cache_dir on my 3.3.8 squid, ther

Re: [squid-users] Squid Pauses!

2013-08-27 Thread Golden Shadow
6917]: Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 6920 exited with status 0 Aug 27 12:23:44 proxy2 squid[7281]: Squid Parent: will start 1 kids Aug 27 12:23:44 proxy2 squid[7281]: Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 7284 started Best regards, Firas - Original Message - From: Guy Helmer To: Golden Shadow

[squid-users] Squid Pauses!

2013-08-27 Thread Golden Shadow
Hello Squid Users! I have a TPROXY server built with squid V. 3.3.7, which was compiled from source. The server has 192 GB of RAM and 2 X 2.7 GHz CPUs, each with 12 cores. but I'm running only one squid worker. At the moment, there are 17 squid clients and the server is receiving 20025 http req

Re: [squid-users] Two Potential Bugs When Using Rock Stores!

2013-08-19 Thread Golden Shadow
ct: Re: [squid-users] Two Potential Bugs When Using Rock Stores! On 18/08/2013 10:25 a.m., Golden Shadow wrote: > Hi! > > If I configure more than 3 rock stores, I get the following cache.log entry > and squid is stopped abnormally: > > Squid Cache (Version 3.3.8-20130816-r12602):

[squid-users] Two Potential Bugs When Using Rock Stores!

2013-08-17 Thread Golden Shadow
Hi! If I configure more than 3 rock stores, I get the following cache.log entry and squid is stopped abnormally: Squid Cache (Version 3.3.8-20130816-r12602): Terminated abnormally. FATAL: Ipc::Mem::Segment::open failed to shm_open(/squid-squid-page-pool.shm): (2) No such file or directory Squi

Re: [squid-users] swapfile header inconsistent with available data

2013-08-17 Thread Golden Shadow
cache contents and tried that, but I ended up with squid taking a long time (roughly 30 hours) trying to generate new swap.state files.  Best regards, Firas - Original Message - From: Golden Shadow To: "squid-users@squid-cache.org" Cc: Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 7:10 PM

[squid-users] swapfile header inconsistent with available data

2013-08-16 Thread Golden Shadow
Hi Squid-users! Recently squid started to restart its working kid and I see the following log entries in cache.log: kid1| WARNING: swapfile header inconsistent with available data  FATAL: Received Segment Violation...dying. Any advice to fix this? Can I just shutdown squid, remove swap.state a

Re: [squid-users] Re: Extremely Low Request Hit Ratio!

2013-08-09 Thread Golden Shadow
Hello babajaga, Thanks a lot your help! I understand from what you said that squid does not know in which cache_dir a requested object may be located in (it does not search for that object in all the cache_dir's) and that may result in the same object stored in all cache-dir's resulting in low

[squid-users] Extremely Low Request Hit Ratio!

2013-08-08 Thread Golden Shadow
Hello there! I installed a TPROXY squid V3.3.7 for a client who originally had an intercept squid V2.7.STABLE9. The request hit ratio of the old squid server is around 35% and byte hit ratio is around 10%. For some reason, the client wanted to keep the original squid server, but he connected it

Re: [squid-users] Squid Sending AAAA DNS queries

2013-07-27 Thread Golden Shadow
, Firas - Original Message - From: Amos Jeffries To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Cc: Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid Sending DNS queries On 27/07/2013 2:40 a.m., Golden Shadow wrote: > Hello squid-users, > > My squid is sending DN

[squid-users] Squid Sending AAAA DNS queries

2013-07-26 Thread Golden Shadow
Hello squid-users, My squid is sending DNS queries, while IPv6 is not enabled on my network. How can I prevent squid from sending DNS queries? I only found dns_v4_first squid directive, which does not completely disable queries. Regards, Firas

Re: [squid-users] Squid Memory and Page Faults

2013-07-24 Thread Golden Shadow
em is CENTOS 6.4 with Kernel 2.6.34.  @Amos: Please see my comments below: - Original Message - From: Amos Jeffries To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid Memory and Page Faults On 25/07/2013 1:05 a.m., Golden Shadow

Re: [squid-users] Evaluating SQUID performance

2013-07-24 Thread Golden Shadow
- From: Amos Jeffries To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Evaluating SQUID performance On 25/07/2013 1:44 a.m., Golden Shadow wrote: > Hi, > > You can show them the hits statistics you get from the cache mana

Re: [squid-users] Evaluating SQUID performance

2013-07-24 Thread Golden Shadow
Hi, You can show them the hits statistics you get from the cache manager using: squidclient mgr:info However, having a hit ratio of 30% let's say does not necessarily mean that squid would save you 30% of bandwidth. Regards, Firas - Original Message - From: John Joseph To: "squid-u

[squid-users] Squid Memory and Page Faults

2013-07-24 Thread Golden Shadow
Hi there! My squid is installed on a server with 192 GB of RAM. I have the following directives in squid.conf: cache_mem 143360 MB maximum_object_size_in_memory 300 KB memory_replacement_policy heap GDSF memory_pools on memory_pools_limit 1024 MB ipcache_size 2048 ipcache_low 90 ipcache_high 9

[squid-users] SMP Squid and aufs Stores

2013-07-22 Thread Golden Shadow
Hi there! I have a TPROXY squid version 3.3.7, installed on a Dell server with 2 X 2.7 GHz CPU, each with 12 cores. The server has 192 GB RAM and around 8 TB disk storage. At the moment, cache manager reports the following: Number of clients accessing cache:                  33 Average HTTP

[squid-users] Squid configure options

2013-07-21 Thread Golden Shadow
Dear Squid Users, I found the following squid configure options online, but I did not find enough information about them. What do they mean? Is it better to build my squid with these options? --disable-poll  --enable-epoll , I know this would disable poll and enable epoll, which both wait for

[squid-users] I can't get squid to cache a file!

2013-07-13 Thread Golden Shadow
Hi Squid-Users! I'm trying to change the refresh_pattern directives in order to be able to cache the following file: http://download.thinkbroadband.com/10MB.zip According to http://redbot.org/ cacheability engine, the file is cacheable: ***

[squid-users] Squid 3.3.7 and Caching Youtube Videos

2013-07-12 Thread Golden Shadow
Hello there, According to: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/DynamicContent/YouTube  "The default configuration of squid older than 3.1 prevents the caching of dynamic content and youtube.com specifically implement several 'features' that prevent their flash videos being effectively di

[squid-users] Squid 3.3.7 and Caching Youtube Videos!

2013-07-11 Thread Golden Shadow
Hello there, According to: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/DynamicContent/YouTube  "The default configuration of squid older than 3.1 prevents the caching of dynamic content and youtube.com specifically implement several 'features' that prevent their flash videos being effectively dis