[squid-users] Warm cold times

[Jonathan Lee]

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> On Apr 23, 2024, at 00:41, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:
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> On 22/04/24 17:42, Jonathan Lee wrote:
>> Has anyone else taken up the fun challenge of doing windows update caching. It is amazing when it works right. It is a complex configuration, but it is worth it to see a warm download come down that originally took 30 mins instantly to a second client. I didn’t know how much of the updates are the same across different vendor laptops.
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> There have been several people over the years.
> The collected information is being gathered at <https://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Caching/WindowsUpdates>
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> If you would like to check and update the information for the current Windows 11 and Squid 6, etc. that would be useful.
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> Wiki updates are now made using github PRs against the repository at <https://github.com/squid-cache/squid-cache.github.io>.
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>> Amazing stuff Squid team.
>> I wish I could get some of the Roblox Xbox stuff to cache but it’s a night to get running with squid in the first place, I had to splice a bunch of stuff and also wpad the Xbox system.
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> FWIW, what I have seen from routing perspective is that Roblox likes to use custom ports and P2P connections for a lot of things. So no high expectations there, but anything cacheable is great news.
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>>>> On Apr 18, 2024, at 23:55, Jonathan Lee wrote:
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>>> Does anyone know the current warm cold download times for dynamic cache of windows updates?
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>>> I can say my experience was a massive increase in the warm download it was delivered in under a couple mins versus 30 or so to download it cold. The warm download was almost instant on the second device. Very green energy efficient.
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>>> Does squid 5.8 or 6 work better on warm delivery?
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> There is no significant differences AFAIK. They both come down to what you have configured. That said, the ongoing improvements may make v6 some amount of "better" - even if only trivial.
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>>> Is there a way to make 100 percent sure a docker container can’t get inside the cache?
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> For Windows I would expect the only "100% sure" way is to completely forbid access to the disk where the cache is stored.
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> The rest of your questions are about container management and Windows configuration. Which are kind of off-topic.
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> Cheers
> Amos
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