[squid-users] Squid Degrading
Alex Rousskov
rousskov at measurement-factory.com
Fri Dec 2 15:46:01 UTC 2022
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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