Re: [squid-users] simple question about how far and fast squid fetch the object

On Friday 28 December 2001 05.05, Jon Kay wrote:
> Squid pulls it in as fast as it can into its own buffers, which are
> wohompingly
> huge.  There used to be a limit to how far ahead it was willing to get, but
> I'm pretty sure that's gone.

The limit is very much there in the same manner as it always have been.

As far as Squid is concerned the limit is 16KB, but ontop of this is the OS
socket buffers which on some OS:es can be quite large (64KB on Linux, and
there is two of them, one on the server connection, one on the client
connection).

Regards
Henrik

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