Re: [squid-users] Squid 3.x very slow loading on ireport.cnn.com

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:17:38 +1300

On 20/01/11 13:31, Max Feil wrote:
> I'm wondering if anybody knows what might be causing this. I've
> confirmed this problem in linux builds of Squid 3.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.10 and
> 3.2.0.4.
>
> Using firefox (or probably any browser - it also happens in a webkit
> based browser under development) clear the browser's disk cache and try
> to load or reload http://ireport.cnn.com (with proxy address/port set to
> Squid of course). Loading the page takes a very long time (several
> minutes) even on a fast network connection. Take Squid out of the mix
> and everything loads in seconds.
>
> This is using the default squid.conf file. The problem does not happen
> in Squid 2.7!
>
> Thanks,
> Max

There are 101 different objects assembled into that one page coming from
10 different domains.

Browsers set a very low limit on the amount of connections and objects
fetched in parallel when using a proxy as compared to going direct.
Large pages like this make the speed difference more noticeable.

That will account for some of the extra time. But should not be taking
that much longer. You will need to find out which objects are taking too
long (firebug or the webkit dev tools should help) and then figure out
why them.

Amos

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