[squid-users] Re: can squid load data into cache faster than sending it out?

I found the answer: set "read_ahead_gap" to a buffer larger than the
largest data chunk I transfer.

- Dave

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 09:11:59AM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> I have a reverse proxy squid on the same machine as my origin server.
> Sometimes queries from squid are sent around the world and can be very
> slow, for example today there is one client taking 40 minutes to
> transfer 46MB. When the data is being transferred from the origin
> server, the connection between squid and the origin server is tied up
> for the entire 40 minutes, leaving it unavailable for other work
> (there's only a small number of connections allowed by the origin server
> to its upstream database). My question is, can squid be configured to
> take in the data from the origin server as fast as it can and cache it,
> and then send out the data to the client as bandwidth allows? I would
> want it to stream to the client during this process too, but not block
> the transfer from origin server to squid if the client is slow.
>
> I'm using squid-2.7STABLE9, and possibly relevant non-default squid.conf
> options I'm using are:
> http_port 8000 accel defaultsite=127.0.0.1:8080
> cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 8080 0 no-query originserver
> collapsed_forwarding on
>
> - Dave
Received on Wed May 04 2011 - 19:52:14 MDT