[squid-users] Streaming is killing Squid cache

[Brett Glass]

Everyone:

This past week, we've had multiple events where Web browsing slowed 
to a crawl and we discovered that our transparent Squid cache had 
very high CPU loads (sometimes completely saturated). We 
investigated, and saw that the cache was downloading streams from 
sites such as "totalstream.net". Even after we turned off 
transparent caching at the router, the cache continued to download 
the stream, leading us to believe that the cache is trying to eat 
the entire stream even after the requesting user has gone away. 
Have others seen this problem? Will we have to disable transparent 
caching due to problems with streaming?

--Brett Glass