RE: [squid-users] Re: Delay Pools for Robots

2004-12-22 Thread Kent, Mr. John \(Contractor\)
m Aube Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 5:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [squid-users] Re: Delay Pools for Robots Kent, Mr. John (Contractor) wrote: > Have an image intensive website (satellite weather photos). > Using Squid as an accelerator. > > Want to slow down robots and spiders

[squid-users] Delay Pools for Robots

2004-12-21 Thread Kent, Mr. John \(Contractor\)
Greetings, Have an image intensive website (satellite weather photos). Using Squid as an accelerator. Want to slow down robots and spiders while basically not affecting human users who access the web pages. Would the following delay_pool parameters be correct for this purpose or would other val

[squid-users] Load Balancing with Cache_Peers

2004-07-14 Thread Kent, Mr. John \(Contractor\)
Greeting Squid Gurus, I read an interesting article on Load Balancing in Zope with Squid as an accelerator. http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/howto/squid I wanted to try it using Apache servers as a backend instead of Zope The problem is the article didn't quite have enough info for me to figure o

[squid-users] Straight Apache Server Faster Than Squid Accelerator?!!!

2004-07-13 Thread Kent, Mr. John \(Contractor\)
Greetings, Using Squid as an accelerator in front of a seven machine server farm. Each server is running a regular "light" Apache server on : and a mod-perl enable "heavy" server on :. Just for fun, thought I'd compare the improvement I got from Squid over the straight Apache when servin

RE: [squid-users] I only get TCP_MISS/200

2004-06-11 Thread Kent, Mr. John \(Contractor\)
Muthukumar, Try running the pages you wish to see cached/"HIT" through the cacheability tool. I found my HITs went way up when I fixed problems with the pages and scripts found by this tool. http://www.web-caching.com/cacheability.html John Kent Webmaster Naval Research Laboratory Monterey, CA

[squid-users] Squid and mod_expires

2004-06-09 Thread Kent, Mr. John \(Contractor\)
Greetings, Writing to find out if the interaction between Squid and Apache with mod-expires is what I think it is (that Squid will honor the Apache expires tags just as a browser would). Using Squid as an accelerator on top of an Apache server farm. If I have a directory of images and for that

RE: [squid-users] RE: Squid Accelerator and SSL, Unsupported method "L"

2004-02-16 Thread Kent, Mr. John (Contractor)
3:08 PM To: Kent, Mr. John (Contractor) Cc: Duane Wessels; Henrik Nordstrom (E-mail); Squid_Users (E-mail) Subject: RE: [squid-users] RE: Squid Accelerator and SSL, Unsupported method "L" On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Kent, Mr. John (Contractor) wrote: > Duane and Henrik, > > Thank you bo

RE: [squid-users] Low hit rate

2004-02-15 Thread Kent, Mr. John (Contractor)
Kemi, I increased my hit ratio by running pages and script output through a cacheability tool and taking corrective action as required. The main thing was to add mod_expires and mod_headers to my servers. http://www.cacheflow.com/technology/tools/friendly/cacheability/index.cfm John Kent Webma

RE: [squid-users] RE: Squid Accelerator and SSL, Unsupported method "L"

2004-02-13 Thread Kent, Mr. John (Contractor)
bgroup logfile_rotate 30 # strip_query_terms on strip_query_terms off ### -Original Message- From: Duane Wessels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:03 PM To: Kent, Mr. John (Contractor) Cc: Squid_U

[squid-users] RE: Squid Accelerator and SSL, Unsupported method "L"

2004-02-13 Thread Kent, Mr. John (Contractor)
Bad! 2004/02/13 10:36:46| clientProcessRequest: Invalid Request Appreciate any suggestions. Thank you, John Kent -Original Message- From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 4:31 PM To: Kent, Mr. John (Contractor) Cc: Henrik Nordstrom; Squid_

RE: [squid-users] Squid Performance Analysis

2004-02-13 Thread Kent, Mr. John (Contractor)
Greetings, I use Wusage and have found that it accidentally creates the desired reports for me. I let it parse my Squid access.log vice the webservers logs. The following are the unintended but desirable results: Clicking on "Top referring URLS" gives: Give for yesterday's stats. Rank Referrin

[squid-users] RE: Squid Accelerator and SSL

2004-02-09 Thread Kent, Mr. John (Contractor)
Message- From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 7:32 PM To: Kent, Mr. John (Contractor) Cc: Squid_Users (E-mail) Subject: RE: Squid Accelerator and SSL On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Kent, Mr. John (Contractor) wrote: > The problem I now have is that the acc

[squid-users] RE: Squid Accelerator and SSL

2004-02-06 Thread Kent, Mr. John (Contractor)
Friday, February 06, 2004 9:44 AM To: Kent, Mr. John (Contractor) Cc: Squid_Users (E-mail); Henrik Nordstrom (E-mail) Subject: Re: Squid Accelerator and SSL Squid-2.5.STABLE can not initiate SSL connections, only accept SSL connections. To initiate SSL connections you need the SSL update patch

[squid-users] Squid Accelerator and SSL

2004-02-06 Thread Kent, Mr. John (Contractor)
Greetings, I am using Squid as a front-end accelerator on top of a server farm. Wanted to re-direct to an https enabled Apache Server. Squid is in a "DMZ" and talks to the server farm through a firewall. The Apache server was set up independently of Squid, by which I mean I created the keys and c

[squid-users] Problem with Tomcat Authentication behind Accelerator

2003-10-08 Thread Kent, Mr. John
Greetings, Using Squid as an accelerator/redirector in front of a diverse collection of machines and webservers/applications. All works well until a client clicks on a particular application which calls a JavaServerPage requiring authentication. Tomcat generates the authentication page fine for t

[squid-users] Debug Settings

2003-09-19 Thread Kent, Mr. John
Greetings, Love Squid! It helped serve forecasts and photos on hurricane Isabel. Trying to eek out better performance and so want to use the cachemger.cgi. So far no luck. I think my question is: What would be the recommended debug_options settings to see the IP# Squid is refusing to make a c

RE: [squid-users] Help!! No TCP_HIT in access.log

2003-09-11 Thread Kent, Mr. John
Paul, I use Squid as an accelerator. Something that helped me dramatically improve my HIT ratio was to run my pages through the "Cacheability Engine Query" at http://www.web-caching.com/cacheability.html It showed me that I needed to add mod_expires among other things to my Apache web server.

RE: [squid-users] Trouble Building with aufs

2003-09-10 Thread Kent, Mr. John
Henrik, Deleting the source tree and re-installing did the trick. Thank you, John Kent -Original Message- From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:23 AM To: Kent, Mr. John; Squid_Users (E-mail) Subject: Re: [squid-users] Trouble Building

[squid-users] Trouble Building with aufs

2003-09-10 Thread Kent, Mr. John
Greetings, Have been running Squid-2.5STABLE3 successfully on Linux with ufs. Wanted to see if we could get some performance improvements by using aufs. Rebuilt perl with threads enabled. Configured: >./configure --prefix=/usr/local/squid --enable-pthreads --enable-store-io=aufs Compiling gives

[squid-users] Optimum Number of Redirectors

2003-09-09 Thread Kent, Mr. John
Greetings, How do I determine the optimum number of redirector processes to use? The FAQ says: Caution If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a back log of URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM and other system resources. So what is too few or

[squid-users] Intermittent Caching During Benchmark Testing

2003-06-16 Thread Kent, Mr. John
Greetings, Running Squid-2.5.STABLE3 on Linux as an accelerator with 32 redirector processes. Tested it using Apache Bench calling the Squid server with its DNS name, it worked perfectly and viewing the access.log saw that every hit was from the cache TCP_HIT:NONE overall Requests Per Second was