Re: [squid-users] Low performance even with low number of users

From: Luiz Felipe <luizkfox_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:48:05 -0300

Thanks, but I figured out what the problem was.
It was outside squid. A security solution was scanning every request
to the proxy and preventing the conexion to be made, so that's why,
for the squid, the access was fast, because actually the request o
squid was.

Anyway, solved. Thanks!

Luiz.

2013/10/11 Pavel Kazlenka <pavel.kazlenka_at_measurement-factory.com>:
> Could you check also availability of primary DNS server on proxy node? I
> suspect that the one is not available, so squid makes dns query to primary
> server, waits for timeout (5 seconds by default IIRC) and then queries the
> secondary DNS server (which answers to squid and you get your page with 5-7
> sec delay).
>
>
>
> On 10/11/2013 03:05 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>>
>> On 11/10/2013 4:00 a.m., Luiz Felipe wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a "curious" case of low performance with Squid.
>>>
>>> The symptom is that every request take at least +/- 7 seconds. Even
>>> when there is a small number of clients.
>>>
>>> The browser keeps waiting and when it load, it loads fast.
>>>
>>> If I allow the client to access the web without proxy, it access
>>> really fast. So, there's no bandwidth problems - and in fact it loads
>>> fast after the "freeze" period. (with the same DNS, by the way).
>>
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> The hardware is enough for the demand - but maybe the settings are wrong.
>>> Version 2.6.STABLE21 (CentOS)
>>>
>>> Any hints?
>>
>>
>> I susect HTTP/1.1 Expect: feature. That feature is being used by more and
>> more services around the Internet as HTTP/1.1 support improves in the
>> middleware like Squid.
>>
>> Please try an upgrade to the current supported stable Squid (3.3.9 as of
>> today) and see if you problem simply disappears.
>>
>> Amos
>
>
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