[squid-users] Adjusting Squid "stale cache" timeout for dead hosts

I just had one of my webservers go down, unrelated to my squid server on
my local lan, but I noticed that after a certain ammount of time, seems
that once squid "realizes that a host is down" it will then serve the
most recent version of the site from cache, which I think is EXCELLENT,
i never noticed this before, of course i recently upgraded from squid3
debian lenny, to squid 3.1 in debian squeeze.

One thing tho, how do I adjust the timing on this, in other words, I
mean, instead of squid taking 2 minutes or so to "realize" the actual
host is down and serve cache, how can I reduce this period? to say 20-30
seconds? Clearly I wouldnt want squid to give up on a host with high
latency, but I would like to know how to fine tune this until I get a
satisfactory timing. Or if its possible at all for that matter.

I just think this is a great feature but in order to really make use of
it when there are connectivity issues, would like to reduce the ttl on
the cached version served.

Thanks in advance!
Received on Thu Dec 29 2011 - 06:17:56 MST