Re: [squid-users] squid 3.2 cache mechanism - not working properly compare to 3.1 series

From: Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer_at_ngtech.co.il>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:53:50 +0200

On 10/25/2012 1:30 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 26/10/2012 12:06 a.m., Ben wrote:
>> Hi Amos,
>>
>> For my curiosity, I again checked same traffic with 3.1.19 and it is
>> working fantastic.
>>
>> I really feel that, in 3.1.19 squid caching performance is superb
>> while considering 3.2.3.
>>
>> I would request that once you verify caching mechanism of 3.2.3 with
>> 3.1.19. I mean some changes are there at code level or something.
>
> We verify against the HTTP RFC 2616 caching requirements directly. Both
> versions follow slightly different requirements dues to differences in
> HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 connection protocol they output. On the whole 3.2
> can cache more, but revalidates more often and more strictly at times
> than 3.1.
>
> It could be something like the If-* or max-age features the browser is
> omitting from 3.1 requests due to HTTP/1.0 being on that connection.
> Sadly you will need to use tcpdump to grab headers from 3.1 and it is
> not as easy to correlate them in wireshark.
>
There always the option to dump packets into file and later open the
captured data in wireshark. (this is what I do if and when I need to
capture really huge amount of traffic that later filtered).

Regards,
Eliezer
> Amos
>

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