Re: [squid-users] squid cuts download at 2 GByte

On 17/10/10 10:13, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, Nyamul,
>
> Du meintest am 17.10.10:
>
>>> seems that "squid" cuts downloads of big files (esp. *.iso) at 2
>>> GByte. Tested with squid 2.6STABLE12 and squid 3.1.8
>>>
>>> Is it possible that squid is the bad guy?
>>>
>>> Downloading a big file via http in the LAN (which doesn't use squid)
>>> works as expected, downloading it via WAN stops at 2048 MByte.
>>> Tested with several providers, with several browsers, under Linux
>>> and Windows. It's no problem related to the target filesystem
>>> (ext2/ext3).
>>>
>>> I have added
>>>
>>> reply_body_max_size 5 GB
>>>
>>> in "/etc/squid/squid.conf" - no change.
>
>> OS limits? What's your installed OS? Is it on i386 or x86_64?
>
>
> i386, Slackware-current. Without squid in the download chain I can
> download 4 GByte and more.
>
> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut

Check that your squid is either 64-bit build or has the --with-large-files.

If either of those are built you may still be bitten by bug
http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3068 (see comment #6). This
will be fixed in 3.1.9.

Amos

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