Re: [squid-users] Managing timeouts

Hello Marcus,

Thank you! i will be applying this. I already have a reply body size
limit.. so bummer for them. In any case this will not affect
connections that remain open while data is feed at slow rates.. right?

Thanks.

-- Matt

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Marcus Kool
<marcus.kool_at_urlfilterdb.com> wrote:
> 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 - 16:08:36 MDT