Re: [squid-users] Problem publishing on Facebook via Squid 3.1.2

On 28.11.2012 09:00, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> You will like to allow for your environment more then 8192 FD.
> I would suggest to jump to something like 65535 as a starter and use
> half of it for the soft and the full to hard.
>
> This is the basic tuning for such a system for this amount of users.
> 2700 with about 100 per sec can be the culprit.
> you can use squidclient mgr:SOMETHING
>
> and the command:
> lsof -n |grep proxy | wc -l
> to see how many basically are opened.
>
> Regards,
> Eliezer
>

Note that 130 req/sec mentioned earlier equates to almost 8K active
sockets. So it is *very* likely this is one of the traffic bottlenecks
in your proxy. When you increase the FD available you can expect to see
higher and faster spikes in traffic req/sec going through Squid. This is
normal and a Good Thing, the client browsers are getting faster service
time and can place more requests to complex sites in those shorter
duration peaks.

I would also ensure that persistent connections are enabled for both
client and server connections. If you have them disabled your Squid will
cause a lot of the machine network sockets to be stuck in TCP's 15min
TIME_WAIT period and unusable to any process.

These two changes alone may fix your FB issue. Their uploader is a bit
sensitive to connection speed as it re-codes whatever the upload is on
the fly. If not you will likely benefit from also adding the HTTP/1.1
improvements available in 3.2 series, which allow a lot more automatic
optimization on sites with traffic profiles like FB.

Amos
Received on Tue Nov 27 2012 - 22:39:57 MST