[squid-users] Squid Degrading

[Alex Rousskov]

On 12/1/22 18:50, ngtech1ltd at gmail.com wrote:
> Hey Alex,
> 
> Do you think an ubuntu "squid" binary would be fit for such a use case?
> IE replacing only the /usr/sbin/squid binary from another source?

This is not my area of expertise. AFAICT, substituting v5 binaries with 
(properly built) v5 binaries will usually work, but it is not a 
supported (or necessary) Squid installation method.

Alex.


> For my simple usage (A simple forward proxy) on Ubuntu I am installing squid from the repo
> and then just replace the squid binary.
> 
> I remember that there was someone that maintains squid repo for Ubuntu and maybe Debian but
> I don't remember who it was.
> Maybe it was it Raphael from diladele?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eliezer
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: squid-users <squid-users-bounces at lists.squid-cache.org> On Behalf Of Alex Rousskov
> Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2022 18:31
> To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid Degrading
> 
> On 12/1/22 11:20, utb trialuser wrote:
> 
>>> What is your Squid version (squid --version)?
> 
>> 5.2
> 
> We can stop here. Please upgrade to Squid v5.7 or later. Squid v5.2 is
> just too buggy to be usable in most production environments (and to
> investigate any performance problems).
> 
> 
>>> Any errors or warnings in cache.log?
> 
>> *WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors*
> 
> There are known Squid v5.2 bugs that may result in the above warnings
> and related performance degradation. I hope that these problems will be
> gone, and your Squid performance will be acceptable after you upgrade.
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 6:12 PM Alex Rousskov wrote:
>>
>>      On 11/30/22 16:57, utb trialuser wrote:
>>       > Hello, I'm running a basic Squid setup on the latest version of
>>      Ubuntu.
>>       > Could you help me figure out why when 15 people connect to my
>>      proxy it
>>       > starts degrading and websites start to take really long to load?
>>       > According to the log file, connections take up to 300000ms to
>>      load when
>>       > this happens. And via other networking tools I was able to
>>      realize that
>>       > packets were being dropped. Bandwidth usage tops at 6MB/s
>>      according to
>>       > another networking tool. Thanks.
>>
>>      What is your Squid version (squid --version)?
>>
>>      Any errors or warnings in cache.log?
>>
>>      Do you have a cache_dir and/or cache_mem configured in squid.conf? Do
>>      you have "workers" configured?
>>
>>      How much free RAM is left on the box when "websites start to take
>>      really
>>      long to load"?
>>
>>      Alex.
>>
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