Fwd: [squid-users] Squid + F5 balancing doesnt work!!!

2008-07-02 Thread Andrew Miehs
Resent to list Begin forwarded message: From: Andrew Miehs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2 July 2008 10:32:34 AM To: "chris brain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid + F5 balancing doesnt work!!! On 02/07/2008, at 4:18 AM, chris brain wrote: We use F5

Re: [squid-users] What exactly is "Do not set REUSEADDR on port."

2008-01-19 Thread Andrew Miehs
On 19/01/2008, at 11:05 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote: mån 2008-01-14 klockan 10:57 -0800 skrev Tory M Blue: I'm running into more connection stacking and while I solved my 3 second delay thanks to F5, i'm still seeing over 9000,1 connections on my web servers, all in Time Wait and most of t

Re: [squid-users] Implementing Squid in our current setup

2007-12-20 Thread Andrew Miehs
On 20/12/2007, at 4:38 PM, Andrew Miehs wrote: You are right - your ASCII art is bad :-) Why do people insist on using one big switch an VLANs... OUCH! This just makes thing more complicated and very dangerous should someone misconfigure the switch - with a small bit of reconfiguration

Re: [squid-users] Implementing Squid in our current setup

2007-12-20 Thread Andrew Miehs
You are right - your ASCII art is bad :-) Why do people insist on using one big switch an VLANs... OUCH! This just makes thing more complicated and very dangerous should someone misconfigure the switch - with a small bit of reconfiguration, you can bypass the ASA altogether... Normally I wo

Re: [squid-users] Implementing Squid in our current setup

2007-12-20 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Jim, Are you REALLY sure you want to do 'transparent' caching - It can be pretty scary as far as breaking http is concerned, and you ending up with a whole lot more work as some sites don't work properly. Your users are most probably using Windows, in which case, set a group policy and fo

Re: [squid-users] Squid on DualxQuad Core 8GB Rams - Optimization - Performance - Large Scale - IP Spoofing

2007-10-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
On 17/10/2007, at 10:50 AM, Muhammad Tayseer Alquoatli wrote: On 10/17/07, Andrew Miehs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 17/10/2007, at 10:03 AM, Muhammad Tayseer Alquoatli wrote: what about AUFS, is in it a way to utilize the other cpus ? i'm running an SMP machine with aufs and w

Re: [squid-users] Squid on DualxQuad Core 8GB Rams - Optimization - Performance - Large Scale - IP Spoofing

2007-10-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
On 17/10/2007, at 10:03 AM, Muhammad Tayseer Alquoatli wrote: what about AUFS, is in it a way to utilize the other cpus ? i'm running an SMP machine with aufs and when i issue mpstat -P ALL i see that all cpus are used (not equally but nearly equally) and there is no other application runnin

Re: [squid-users] Squid on DualxQuad Core 8GB Rams - Optimization - Performance - Large Scale - IP Spoofing

2007-10-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
Adrian Chadd wrote: Out of curiousity, how many Squid servers do you have deployed out there? Adrian We've got 8 in total, currently. I'll preempt you asking for specs: 4 are: Supermicro 1u with Dual Core Xeon 5148 2.33Ghz, 4gb DDR2, 4 x 400gb 7200rpm disks in hardware raid 1+0. Thes

Re: [squid-users] Reverse Proxy with Apache (LB) in front

2007-10-09 Thread Andrew Miehs
On 09/10/2007, at 5:09 PM, Yann Verry wrote: I have think to Squid 2.6 (debian etch package) and Apache in reverse proxy mode (LoadBalancing and rewrite rules to specify a squid, apply loadfactor, ...). I have a problem to evaluate the resources needed. Why are you using Apache as a load balan

Re: [squid-users] Probleme sind Debian Upgrade (woody -> sarge)

2007-06-19 Thread Andrew Miehs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andreas, From everything I read every day on the squid mailing list - UPGRADE to squid 2.6 or why not just upgrade your entire box to Debian etch - went stable 3 months ago...? Regards Andrew On 19/06/2007, at 12:29 PM, Andreas Krummric

Re: [squid-users] squid 64bit memory usage, again!

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hello leongmzlist, On 08/05/2007, at 2:17 AM, leongmzlist wrote: We got a server w/ 8GB of RAM for caching lots of small objects in reverse proxy mode. I calculated that 32bit squid uses about 115 bytes per object, 64bit squid uses 165 bytes. -- conclusion: w/ large amount of

Re: [squid-users] Two levels of reverse proxy

2007-03-02 Thread Andrew Miehs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Roland, Why is squid.local.server a reverse proxy? Can't you just run that in 'normal' mode? Cheers Andrew On 02/03/2007, at 10:26 AM, Roland Rabben wrote: I need to be able to set up two levels of reverse proxy (http accelerators) but I n

Re: [squid-users] Squid get very high load

2007-02-07 Thread Andrew Miehs
On 07/02/2007, at 7:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cache_dir aufs /home/squid/var/cache 20480 16 64 cache_dir aufs /home/squid/var/cache0 20480 16 64 cache_dir aufs /home/squid/var/cache1 20480 16 64 ... The squid is running on /home/squid dir./home is a disk partion,it has 254G space. ...

Re: [squid-users] High CPU usage problem on Squid 2.6 STABLE9

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Miehs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/01/2007, at 8:51 PM, Robert wrote: My connection speed is 45 Mbit max, but real traffic is about 30-35 Mbit including P2P. I am not really sure how high the interrupts are allowed to go... 20:33:10 CPU %user %nice%sys %iowait

Re: [squid-users] High CPU usage problem on Squid 2.6 STABLE9

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Michel On 30/01/2007, at 8:06 PM, Michel Santos wrote: he said in an older msg that is a dual-xeon but the CPU column is not in top (the one he sent) so probably his OS is not SMP enabled I had read that - was just wondering due to the name he picked for his machine... Linux sunfir

Re: [squid-users] High CPU usage problem on Squid 2.6 STABLE9

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Robert, This box seems to be running something a little MORE than squid - could this be a firewall perhaps? The huge number of interrupts then seem ok for this sort of a setup - How many Megabits/ second are you pushing through this box?! Sorry to be a pain - I have more quesions... Is

Re: [squid-users] High CPU usage problem on Squid 2.6 STABLE9

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Miehs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Robert, Could you provide output from: uname -a uptime cat /proc/stat I am not a big fan of top - as the output can be very confusing to read. How many processors are in this box? Hyperthreading? (We will see this in /proc/

Re: [squid-users] mv command killed my squid box

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oops - that doesn't look good. Looks like none of these commands are statically linked... Other than booting off a rescue cd, and moving the files back - I think you are pretty hosed... Sorry Andrew On 29/01/2007, at 4:47 PM, Hement Gopal wro

Re: [squid-users] High CPU usage problem on Squid 2.6 STABLE9

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
Dear Robert, what does vmstat 5 show? Please do not confuse 'Load' with CPU Time. Regards Andrew On 29/01/2007, at 3:47 PM, Robert wrote: Linux top command show load oabout 60-99% and is visible latency with browsing sites, Cache information for squid: Request Hit Ratios:

Re: [squid-users] mv command killed my squid box

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
This may help you... /home/admin/scripts/bin/ls -la /home/admin/scripts /home/admin/scripts/bin/mv /home/admin/scripts/filename to /. But seriously, now is a good chance to buy a new machine and install on that. Cheers Andrew PS: While you are it - fix your email footer If I wanted

Re: [squid-users] Squid Under High Load

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Miehs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/01/2007, at 9:58 PM, Michel Santos wrote: did you eventually compiled with --disable-internal-dns ? probably not exactly what you want ... could you convert "large number" and "high load" into decimal numbers? He is probably using aufs

Re: [squid-users] Squid2.6 Reverse Proxy question

2007-01-13 Thread Andrew Miehs
Now I understand Henrik. Look in the FAQ, or google and all will be revealed. Squid attaches an X-Forwarded-For header which contains the original client ip. Regards Andrew On 13/01/2007, at 9:58 AM, Tin wrote: Hi all May I know how to let real http servers see the client's IP (for p

Re: Re[2]: [squid-users] 2.6 documentation

2006-12-31 Thread Andrew Miehs
http://www.visolve.com/squid/squid30/network.php#http_port documents a 'accel' directive This is, if I remember correctly, not supported in 2.6. I am not sure however if this is required in 3.0 Regards Andrew On 31/12/2006, at 1:49 PM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: Accelerator configuration of 2

Re: Re[2]: [squid-users] 2.6 documentation

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Miehs
On 30/12/2006, at 4:40 PM, Andrew Miehs wrote: Am I correct in assuming that squid acting as in accelerator mode communicates to the backend using HTTP/1.1 and that the defaultsite directive forces squid to append this to the host part of the request? (IE: HTTP/1.0 with hostname) That came

Re: Re[2]: [squid-users] 2.6 documentation

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Miehs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Henrik, On 30/12/2006, at 2:31 PM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: Not sure what you did, but it's damn hard to get it wrong.. http_port XXX defaultsite=your.main.site cache_peer localhost parent 9966 0 no-query originserver Actually I found it pr

Re: Re[2]: [squid-users] 2.6 documentation

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Miehs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/12/2006, at 12:30 PM, Torsten Kurbad wrote: On Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 05:46 Henrik Nordstrom wrote: Hi Henrik, # options are: # transparent Support for transparent proxies # vhost Acce

Re: [squid-users] 2.6 documentation

2006-12-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
Hi Andrew On 29/12/2006, at 5:47 PM, Andrew Steffek wrote: I'm only using the %w in my footer but %s still shows up on the page. And not by choice, but I'm running 2.6-stable5NT, and not of my own compile. My error pages end with: If you feel you have reached this page in error please contact

Re: [squid-users] 2.6 documentation

2006-12-29 Thread Andrew Miehs
Dear Henrik, On 29/12/2006, at 2:30 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: Not quite. More exacly this one http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/MiscFeatures#head- fd8f5559ec842b21e1acb06823eaa9b83897fcc3 I had seen this - quoted from that link: %s:: caching proxy software with version The Squi

Re: [squid-users] 2.6 documentation

2006-12-28 Thread Andrew Miehs
Dear Henrik, Are you referring to ... http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ConfiguringSquid#head- c134859d49062a83f117b0ecce7b85c3f74c33a7 ? also referred to here http://www1.de.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-dev/ 200403/0032.html This however does not remove all the squid error me

Re: [squid-users] Transparent caching : using non default http port

2006-11-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
I do not understand why one wouldn't use acl accelerated_list dst 1.2.3.4 Shouldnt this only allow squid ONLY to try to connect to here, just in case someone makes a mess of the cache_peer lines? As for which http_headers they send - who cares... Or am I missing something... Andrew

[squid-users] Understanding Statistics

2006-11-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear List, I am trying to understand the squid cache statistics... Cache information for squid: Request Hit Ratios: 5min: 98.3%, 60min: 98.1% Byte Hit Ratios:5min: 96.4%, 60min: 95.9% Request Memory Hit Ratios:

[squid-users] Reverse Proxy

2006-11-18 Thread Andrew Miehs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear List, I have just started testing Squid to use it as a reverse proxy for our static image/ photo servers. I have looked and read all the FAQs and mailing list articles I could find, and have a few questions as to what the 'correct' way is