[squid-users] Issue with Citrix sessions and squid

[David Touzeau]

Hi Amos, Yuri


We have created a dedicated port and added a dedicated network card.
change all browsers settings of only one Citrix server to this dedicated 
network card/port.

Issue is the same.

Connection are broken...


Le 08/07/2015 23:26, Amos Jeffries a écrit :
> On 9/07/2015 7:01 a.m., David Touzeau wrote:
>> Thanks Yuri,
>>
>> Any tips how to increase TCP/IP stack ?
>> Did you means TCP/IP stack on the Citrix Server side or on the squid
>> box  or both ?
> I'm thinking its a problem related to TCP sockets.
> A rough estimate calculatino of:
>   10 users x10 tabs x20 avg domains per page x 2 for happy eyeballs
> makes it somewhere up to 4k sockets in active use at any time. if the
> users are accessing domains with larger numbers ofdomains per page (ie
> Facebook has up to 100) that could be 20k concurrent sockets just from
> the browser.
>   By the time that goes through Squid it becomes 40k, and if you have
> ICAP it becomes "up to 80K" (out of an available 64k sockets).
>
> Then there is all the OS background services that use HTTP through the
> proxy, etc.
>
> Without Citrix the users internal src-IPs vary. Making available a 64k
> sockets per-user. Which is harder to reach, and the browser silently
> limits itself when socekts start to run out.
>
> Without Squid the Citrix connections are going to N different domains
> with varying dst-IP. Which again raises the available port numbers per-user.
>
>
> If the assumptino behind the above is right you should be able to
> alleviate the problem by having Squid listen on multiple ports and/or
> IPs. Then spreading the client connections out across those Squid ports.
>
> Amos
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