Re: [squid-users] Managing timeouts

Matt,

Setting read_timeout to 1min and connect_timeout to 20sec should do the trick.

And I recommend to look for users who download large files or
watch CNN video news all day long.

Marcus

Matthew Young wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I have a group of proxy users who are not technical at all, and it is
> very common for them to complain that the "network is slow" because
> there job consists of browsing sites all day and sometimes they are
> just lucky that they hit remote servers which are non response, or
> initiate the connection but never feed data thus they see their
> firefox as loading and loading and they next thing we know they also
> think there "computer is slow". They cannot tell the difference
> between a local network issue and a remote server issue.
>
> Id like to drop down the possibilities of this and set a timeout of 30
> seconds, my goal is if the remote site is non responsive (waiting for
> data) id like to timeout the connection in 30 seconds tops, if
> possible display the timeout message.
>
> My question is, what are they related time outs within the config that
> are safe to modify? I modified the read_timeout (default 15min, yes
> some users actually stare 15 min on the screen) to 1 minute but for
> some reason it didnt take place.
>
> Also, does the cache manager offfer a way to list the slowest queries
> for inspection?
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Matt
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 27 2009 - 14:33:12 MDT