Re: [squid-users] downloads fail after a while in 3.1.0.14

Landy Landy wrote:
> Amos thank you for replying.
>
> I tried downloading the file again several time without luck. I ran the command you requested but don't know where to start reading it since it has over 4000 entries.
>
> One of the downloads failed at 405MB. Squid didn't cache this one though which I thought it would have because I changed max_object_size t0 512 MB.
>
> I'm stuck here without know what exactly is my problem.
>
> --- On Wed, 12/2/09, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
>> Subject: Re: [squid-users] downloads fail after a while in 3.1.0.14
>> To: "Landy Landy" <landysaccount_at_yahoo.com>
>> Cc: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
>> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 8:09 PM
>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:10:44 -0800
>> (PST), Landy Landy
>> <landysaccount_at_yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Right now I'm trying to download a file from intel
>> thats 432MB and it
>> has
>>> failed 5 times already. It started and failed at 110MB
>> later started it
>>> again and failed at 19MB and so on. The best it has
>> done is 110MB.
>>> I don't know whats going on. This time squid won't
>> cache this one since
>> I
>>> have maximum_object_size 256 MB
>> I expect this explains the second failure at 19MB. If Squid
>> were able to
>> cache the object it would I think get to over 110MB before
>> failing again.
>>
>> I suspect one of the timeouts (request or read) is set too
>> low for your
>> bandwidth speeds.
>>
>> That and/or quick_abort may be clashing to do this.
>>
>> It could also be the old enemies of broken ECN and TCP
>> window sizing.
>>
>>> I would increase this just for the moment to 512MB to
>> test if it
>> downloads
>>> it.
>>>
>> Are you able to catch the information between the client
>> browser and
>> squid?
>>
>> Running this on the squid box should log it to a file
>> "$CLIENTIP.log" for
>> detailed analysis:
>> tcpdump -i $ETH -s 0 -w $CLIENTIP.log host $CLIENTIP
>>
>> NP: substituting $CLIENTIP for the client IP address and
>> $ETH with the
>> interface name Squid talks to the client through (ie. eth0,
>> eth1, etc).
>>
>> Amos
>>

Great. Are you able to send me that packet log and your squid.conf please?

Amos

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