Re: [squid-users] Commercial Squid tweak speeds things up significantly!

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:08:27 +1300

On 26/11/2011 11:21 a.m., - Mikael - wrote:
> Our school dept wants to buy a commercial proxy (Squid based) which
> seems to work a whole lot faster than the standard installation (of
> Squid). The performance difference between the two Squid's seems to be
> in how commercial Squid implementation is handling a missed object.
>
> From what I understand their Squid implementation caches the content
> in a normal way, but once a client gets a cache miss, then their Squid
> allows the client to fetch the record -- apparently Squid doesn't do
> it for the client which seems to make the big performance difference.
> Once the object is fetched by the client, Squid intercepts it and
> stores the object for the other clients. I tested this and that
> implementation really, really speeds things up.

Could you name this product and point at some documentation it has about
this process?

>
> Is it possible to configure Squid that way by modifying config file,
> or this is more involved than just editing config file?
>
> Thanks!
Received on Fri Nov 25 2011 - 23:08:44 MST

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