[squid-users] Connection Timeouts

[Cheadle, Edward]

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.

We have people stress testing out installation and I was concerned that if connection timeouts are too long we may see congestion.

Should I be worried that connection timeouts will use up file descriptors at a higher rate?

And what might be the options?

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


“TIMEOUT

Timeout parameters in Squid can be based on overall connection timeouts, peer-specific timeouts, site/domain-specific timeouts, request-specific timeouts etc. Proper setting of timeout values is critical to optimal Squid performance. Relevant parameters for timeout settings are listed”



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.



I did not see anything that narrowed the timeout to a specific timeout.



I am trying to set connection timeouts to AWS sites, but keep connection timeouts to the default, because it is working well.


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