Re: [squid-users] Re: can squid load data into cache faster than sending it out?

2011-05-12 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 01:37:13PM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote: On 12/05/11 08:18, Dave Dykstra wrote: ... So its a choice of being partially vulnerable to slow loris style attacks (timeouts etc prevent full vulnerability) or packet amplification on a massive scale. Just to make sure I

Re: [squid-users] Re: can squid load data into cache faster than sending it out?

2011-05-11 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 11/05/11 04:34, Dave Dykstra wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 02:32:22PM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote: On 07/05/11 08:54, Dave Dykstra wrote: Ah, but as explained here http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200903/0509.html this does risk using up a lot of memory because squid

Re: [squid-users] Re: can squid load data into cache faster than sending it out?

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:05:08PM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote: On 11/05/11 04:34, Dave Dykstra wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 02:32:22PM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote: On 07/05/11 08:54, Dave Dykstra wrote: Ah, but as explained here

Re: [squid-users] Re: can squid load data into cache faster than sending it out?

2011-05-11 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 12/05/11 08:18, Dave Dykstra wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:05:08PM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote: On 11/05/11 04:34, Dave Dykstra wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 02:32:22PM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote: On 07/05/11 08:54, Dave Dykstra wrote: Ah, but as explained here

Re: [squid-users] Re: can squid load data into cache faster than sending it out?

2011-05-10 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 02:32:22PM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote: On 07/05/11 08:54, Dave Dykstra wrote: Ah, but as explained here http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200903/0509.html this does risk using up a lot of memory because squid keeps all of the read-ahead data in

Re: [squid-users] Re: can squid load data into cache faster than sending it out?

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Dykstra
Ah, but as explained here http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200903/0509.html this does risk using up a lot of memory because squid keeps all of the read-ahead data in memory. I don't see a reason why it couldn't instead write it all out to the disk cache as normal and then

Re: [squid-users] Re: can squid load data into cache faster than sending it out?

2011-05-06 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 07/05/11 08:54, Dave Dykstra wrote: Ah, but as explained here http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200903/0509.html this does risk using up a lot of memory because squid keeps all of the read-ahead data in memory. I don't see a reason why it couldn't instead write it all