[squid-users] Unusually High Average HTTP requests per minute

[Amos Jeffries]

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On 3/11/2014 7:35 p.m., Avery_GoodMan wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> At the very outset , I would like to state that I have only
> recently started administering a squid Proxy Server( < 3 months) so
> any omissions may pls be condoned. The problem I am facing is
> this. From the Squid manager cache interface I see that the number
> of "Average HTTP requests per minute since start" is very high,
> almost 15000/minute !!. The normal load is in the region of
> 800-100( max 1000/minute). also if I check the " 5 Minute Average
> of Counters" I see that the "client_http.requests " also unusually
> high in the region of 450/sec. What is perplexing is that in the
> same page the client_http.errors is also in the region of 400/sec
> !! I first suspected a DoS attack and have applied some patches to
> the Linux server. But there is no visible change in the above 
> figures reported. However In spite of all this the Mean Service
> time is in the region of .5 to 1.0 secs/request and therefore the
> user complaints are minimum.
> 
> Any help in this regard to isolate and rectify the problem is
> greatly appreciated.

You need to look in the access.log records to find out what those
requests are for exactly.

Amos

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