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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We had a person leave and I got selected to update and maintain our squid proxy. We are talking to AWS and they told us that we needed to change the connection_timeout value from the default to 5 min.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We have people stress testing out installation and I was concerned that if connection timeouts are too long we may see congestion.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Should I be worried that connection timeouts will use up file descriptors at a higher rate?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And what might be the options?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Doing and internet search I found a web page at https://www.visolve.com/squid/squid30/timeout.php and in the TIMEOUT description I read<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.25pt">“<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Droid Sans",serif;color:#222222">TIMEOUT</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Droid Sans",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Droid Sans",serif;color:#222222">Timeout parameters in Squid can be based on overall connection timeouts, peer-specific timeouts,
<b>site/domain-specific timeout</b>s, request-specific timeouts etc. Proper setting of timeout values is critical to optimal Squid performance. Relevant parameters for timeout settings are listed”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Droid Sans",serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Droid Sans",serif;color:#222222">Is it possible to narrow the connection timeout to a specific site? I looked at the website information, squid documentation
and did an internet search.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Droid Sans",serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Droid Sans",serif;color:#222222">I did not see anything that narrowed the timeout to a specific timeout.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Droid Sans",serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Droid Sans",serif;color:#222222">I am trying to set connection timeouts to AWS sites, but keep connection timeouts to the default, because it is working
well. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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