Re: [squid-users] Squid on Windows XP

From: Guido Serassio <guido.serassio@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:12:10 +0200

Hi,

At 00.49 25/03/2007, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
>Hi all,
> I installed the windows port of squid by Acme Consulting on an XP
>workstation with a dialup connection to the inet. Fixed up the
>squid.conf so that squid listens on 127.0.0.1 and set the IE proxy
>settings accordingly. Sadly I get no page-loads.
> The cache log shows that squid starts up OK and picks up the dns
>addresses assigned to the dialup connection. However, the pagefaults
>count on exit looks extremely high:
>
>Page faults with physical i/o: 1640
>
> I use aufs on my FC6 squid and assumed that this would be fine on
>xp. Here is my cache_dir line (will tune later):
>
>cache_dir aufs c:/squid/var/cache 1024 16 256
>
> Neither access.log nor store.log have any entries.
>
> Any thoughts on what is wrong here? Does this port no play well on
>XP? Or have I chosen the wrong store type? Or missed something else?

Squid works fine on all Windows version starting from 2000 to the latest Vista.

Do you have any personal firewall running on your XP machine ?

Regards

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Received on Sun Mar 25 2007 - 02:12:24 MDT

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