Re: [squid-users] Squid problem with Akamai servers?

The server had already been configured with the line

half_closed_clients off

--Brett Glass

At 02:54 PM 12/8/2005, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
 
>On 07.12 23:06, Brett Glass wrote:
>> Just today, I noticed that a transparent Squid proxy running on
>> FreeBSD 4.11 was really bogging down its Internet connection. So, I
>> ran the "netstat" command, and discovered that the cache had huge
>> numbers of open sockets (more than 100) to Port 80 on the Akamai
>> server at our upstream provider. Any client sockets (that is,
>> sockets from the clients to the proxy) that might have been
>> associated with the transactions had all closed, but the sockets
>> from the proxy to the Akamai server were in the "ESTABLISHED"
>> state. The send queues on the sockets all seemed to contain about
>> 50K bytes of data and were VERY slowly getting smaller.
>>
>> What's the likely cause of this? And why are all of the perpetually
>> open sockets all to Akamai servers? Is anyone else out there seeing
>> this behavior? I'm worried that there is some sort of adverse
>> interaction going on between Squid and Akamai.
>
>your problem may lie in half-closed connections:
>
>http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ.html#toc12.33
>
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Received on Sat Dec 10 2005 - 16:20:51 MST