Re: [squid-users] Large Downloads Killing Squid

On 06/09/11 19:13, Justin Lawler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We had a situation where a user tried to download 20 mp4 files (at 115+ Mb each) at the same time through squid, and squid died for up to 20 minutes after, not responding to any other traffic. Is this a known issue? Can we work around it with setting update in squid.conf?
>
> We're running squid 3.0.15 on solaris connecting into an ICAP server.
>

I think you will benefit from an upgrade. There were ICAP efficiency
upgrades, memory leaks, large object RAM over-allocations, and FD leaks
fixed across the 3.0 and 3.1 series since your version. Any one of which
could have been the problem.

Amos

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