[squid-users] squid-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 82

Yuri Voinov yvoinov at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 13:26:54 UTC 2016


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You can have slow DNS. Consider to use local caching DNS recursor as
source for proxy & users.

23.10.2016 18:42, Krishna Kulkarni пишет:
>
> Hi Antony,
> Thanks for the reply. I have made changes in squid.conf as per your
suggestion and have allocated 20 GB of Hard disk space.
> Squid server at my location handles http/https requests for more than
500 hosts. But at peak hours squid usually performs very slow and
browser takes 1-2 minutes just to serve google home page and more time
than that for heavy web page.
> I have verified network link utilization & found it consumes not more
than 15 mb whereas link bandwidth is of 45mb but still squid serves web
pages very slow to client hosts.
> Any suggestions in squid configuration to overcome this issue would be
highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Krishna.
>
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>     Today's Topics:
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>        1. Slowness in Squid (Krishna Kulkarni)
>        2. Re: Slowness in Squid (Antony Stone)
>        3. external_acl_type problem (reinerotto)
>        4. Re: Slowness in Squid (Yuri Voinov)
>        5. Re: Slowness in Squid (Matus UHLAR - fantomas)
>        6. Re: Slowness in Squid (Yuri Voinov)
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>     Message: 1
>     Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 09:06:22 +0530
>     From: Krishna Kulkarni <krishna26kulkarni at gmail.com
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>     To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
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>     Subject: [squid-users] Slowness in Squid
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>     Dear Team
>     I am new to squid.. I have installed squid 3.5 on CentOS 6.7. As a
>     configuration part, I have kept most of the things default. Please
advice
>     on how to allocate cache memory of 20 GB to squid. I got to know
that, more
>     cache memory would increase performance of squid..
>
>     Thanks,
>     Krishna
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>     Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 10:16:28 +0200
>     From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone at squid.open.source.it
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>     To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
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>     Subject: Re: [squid-users] Slowness in Squid
>     Message-ID: <201610231016.28867.Antony.Stone at squid.open.source.it
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>     On Sunday 23 October 2016 at 05:36:22, Krishna Kulkarni wrote:
>
>     > I am new to squid.. I have installed squid 3.5 on CentOS 6.7. As a
>     > configuration part, I have kept most of the things default.
Please advice
>     > on how to allocate cache memory of 20 GB to squid.
>
>     Do you mean cache memory, or disk cache?
>
>
>     If you mean memory (RAM) and you have enough of this in your
system (eg: 32
>     Gbytes or more), then find the section in squid.conf which starts
with:
>
>     # MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
>
>     And read about the tag "cache_mem".
>
>     To set this value (normally 256 Mbytes) to 20 Gbytes, set:
>
>     cache_mem 20 GB
>
>
>     If, on the other hand, you do not mean memory, but you mean disk
cache, then
>     find the section in squid.conf with starts with:
>
>     #  TAG: cache_dir
>
>     and read that section.
>
>     Pay particular attention to the line which says:
>
>     #       cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
>
>     And then later there is an example:
>
>     # cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid3 100 16 256
>
>     Uncomment that line and change the 100 (Megabytes) in that line to
20000 (for
>     20 Gigabytes) and perhaps also adjust the 16 to something like 64
or even 256
>     - for a large cache you don't want a few directories with lots of
entries
>     each, so it's worthwhile creating lots of directories to keep the
number of
>     files in each down.
>
>     > I got to know that, more cache memory would increase performance
of squid..
>
>     What do you mean by "performance"?
>
>
>     Antony.
>
>     --
>     Just when you think you're done, a cat floats by with buttered
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>     Message: 3
>     Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 03:39:31 -0700 (PDT)
>     From: reinerotto <augustus_meyer at gmx.net
<mailto:augustus_meyer at gmx.net>>
>     To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
<mailto:squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org>
>     Subject: [squid-users] external_acl_type problem
>     Message-ID: <1477219171447-4680203.post at n4.nabble.com
<mailto:1477219171447-4680203.post at n4.nabble.com>>
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>     1)
>     According to
>     http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/external_acl_type/
<http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/external_acl_type/>
>
>     in squid.conf, this
>
>     external_acl_type check_delay ttl=0 cache=0 %SRC
/etc/squid/check_delay.sh
>
>     should start 0 helpers immediately after squid (3.5.22) start-up.
>     However, I always see 5.
>
>     2)
>     I often see this:
>     Sat Oct 22 23:51:18 2016 user.alert syslog: The check_delay
helpers are
>     crashing too rapidly, need help!
>     Sat Oct 22 23:51:18 2016 local4.notice squid[21677]: Squid Parent:
(squid-1)
>     process 27685 exited with status 1
>
>     Still trying to trace down the problem, I notice, that in this
case some
>     helpers still kept alive, although
>     I expect them to be killed, too, in case squid-1 exits.
>
>
>     I need to add, that I am running squid on an embedded system,
cross-compiled
>     for MIPS.
>     So there _might_ be some assumptions made for "standard LINUX"
squid, which
>     are not true in my case.
>
>
>
>
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>     Message: 4
>     Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:15:53 +0600
>     From: Yuri Voinov <yvoinov at gmail.com <mailto:yvoinov at gmail.com>>
>     To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
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>     Subject: Re: [squid-users] Slowness in Squid
>     Message-ID: <ebf2c080-b508-9547-a9df-d7971df609a4 at gmail.com
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> Keep in mind - a huge in-memory cache does not always give the
> acceleration. Moreover, in most cases you can get the opposite effect
> expected. It is a common misconception - that the giant memory cache
> will give a giant performance gain.
>
>
> 23.10.2016 9:36, Krishna Kulkarni пишет:
>
> > Dear Team
> > I am new to squid.. I have installed squid 3.5 on CentOS 6.7. As a
> configuration part, I have kept most of the things default. Please
> advice on how to allocate cache memory of 20 GB to squid. I got to know
> that, more cache memory would increase performance of squid..
>
> > Thanks,
> > Krishna
>
>
>
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>     Message: 5
>     Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 13:37:04 +0200
>     From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk
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>     To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
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>     Subject: Re: [squid-users] Slowness in Squid
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>     On 23.10.16 17:15, Yuri Voinov wrote:
>     >Keep in mind - a huge in-memory cache does not always give the
>     >acceleration. Moreover, in most cases you can get the opposite effect
>     >expected. It is a common misconception - that the giant memory cache
>     >will give a giant performance gain.
>
>     doesn't that imply kind of effectiveness?
>
>     >23.10.2016 9:36, Krishna Kulkarni пишет:
>     >> I am new to squid.. I have installed squid 3.5 on CentOS 6.7. As a
>     >configuration part, I have kept most of the things default. Please
>     >advice on how to allocate cache memory of 20 GB to squid. I got
to know
>     >that, more cache memory would increase performance of squid..
>
>     --
>     Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar at fantomas.sk
<mailto:uhlar at fantomas.sk> ; http://www.fantomas.sk/
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>     Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:40:46 +0600
>     From: Yuri Voinov <yvoinov at gmail.com <mailto:yvoinov at gmail.com>>
>     To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
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>     Subject: Re: [squid-users] Slowness in Squid
>     Message-ID: <790ee9e7-f646-d14a-1213-a3729e30d90f at gmail.com
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>     This effect is good known to all who have worked with relational
>     databases. In fact, it is typical in general for all caches except
>     purpose-built highly scalable systems.
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>     23.10.2016 17:37, Matus UHLAR - fantomas пишет:
>     > doesn't that imply kind of effectiveness?
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