Re: [squid-users] Streaming is killing Squid cache

Brett Glass wrote:
> Everyone:
>
> This past week, we've had multiple events where Web browsing slowed to a
> crawl and we discovered that our transparent Squid cache had very high
> CPU loads (sometimes completely saturated). We investigated, and saw
> that the cache was downloading streams from sites such as
> "totalstream.net". Even after we turned off transparent caching at the
> router, the cache continued to download the stream, leading us to
> believe that the cache is trying to eat the entire stream even after the
> requesting user has gone away. Have others seen this problem? Will we
> have to disable transparent caching due to problems with streaming?
>
> --Brett Glass
>

Check your quick_abort_* settings.
  http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/quick_abort_max/
  http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/quick_abort_min/
  http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/quick_abort_pct/
and
   half_closed_clients off

They can be set to cause squid to either finish fetching objects after
the client is gone, or abort when the client goes away.

Amos

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