[squid-users] Sharing Load Accross Multiple Peers

2008-08-07 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi All, I have been sharing load accross multiple peers with my squid. My clients reported serious slowness when I used roundrobin; which I thought should have been the best option in my situation. I am currently using sourcehash. What I want to know is how often does sourcehash rebuilds its ta

[squid-users] Chaining Redirectors

2008-02-13 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi All, pls how do you chaing redirectors? Googling gave me wrapzap+zapchain. Are there alternatives? Especially those native to squid. I use 2.6. Regards, solomon.

[squid-users] Sponsors

2007-12-11 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi, I realise that anytime a user request for a feature, the issue of someone sponsoring its development is brought up. Is it that squid has now lost or run out of developers? Or is this how open source projects have mainly been developed? Is it that there should be a drive for developers? Or a fo

Re: [squid-users] x MB for y GB

2007-12-04 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi, typical values from my live squid: Memory Size(KB): 343296 Cache size (KB) 59904004 Mean Object Size (KB): 19.19 No. of Objects Stored: 3121861 I guess if your mean object size is smaller, you will get a greater number of objects and hence will require a bigger memory. solomon. --- s f <[

Re: [squid-users] *.windowsupdate.com

2007-10-31 Thread Solomon Asare
as changed! Regards, solomon. --- zulkarnain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Solomon Asare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > for some few days now, I have been seeing > > good/excellent byte hit rate on > *.windowsupdate.com > > (40-5

[squid-users] *.windowsupdate.com

2007-10-31 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi All, for some few days now, I have been seeing good/excellent byte hit rate on *.windowsupdate.com (40-50%). Maybe some excellent changes have gone on at *.windowsupdate.com. I hope it's going to be a permanent change. Best Regards and have a nice web caching day, solomon.

RE: [squid-users] Same Domain Caching

2007-10-22 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi, --- Dave Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had considered doing that as well - using a > redirector to match on > youtube.com/get_video but then I'll need to save > those to the disk and > manage them myself as opposed to using squids > method. Is there a successful > use of ETags for somet

Re: [squid-users] Filter Infrastructure.

2007-10-09 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi, thanks, I will do some reading on these. solomon. --- Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 12:21 +1300, Amos Jeffries > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > pls., is there a native filter infrasructure for > > > squid? I have seen such a patch on the net by > Olaf > > >

Re: [squid-users] Filter Infrastructure.

2007-10-09 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi, I am looking at doing some compression in between 2 squids on some mime types. Regards, solomon. --- Amos Jeffries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > pls., is there a native filter infrasructure for > > squid? I have seen such a patch on the net by Olaf > > Titz. Has such a system b

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects - One Small Step Forward - WARNING

2007-10-08 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi All, pls should anyone want to try the scripts I posted, do not use /tmp. I irretrievably trashed my 300+ rules which have been built over a week. I now have to crawl up all over again. I wonder why I didn't see this coming. You may use /var/log/squid/. Thanks, solomon.

[squid-users] Filter Infrastructure.

2007-10-08 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi All, pls., is there a native filter infrasructure for squid? I have seen such a patch on the net by Olaf Titz. Has such a system been integrated into any of the recent releases, eg Squid3? Thanks, solomon.

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects - One Small Step Forward

2007-10-08 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi, --- Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll have to look some more into it later on. Squid > could probably > be patched to do what you're using Apache for.. > > > Adrian > > That will be great, but what I don't understand is why they don't want to make such a static object cacheab

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects - One Small Step Forward

2007-10-08 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi, --- Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, you're currently caching the videos in > the apache proxy and not in the > Squid proxy. > > > > > Adrian > > Thanks for the info on large file sizes and memory requirements. I store the objects in squid, not in apache. The apache

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects - One Small Step Forward

2007-10-08 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi, --- Tek Bahadur Limbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you intending to run a single cache of 500 GB in > size or a couple of > proxy caches amounting to 500 GB in size? > > It's because running a 500 GB cache in a single > machine is going to > cause you problems along the way. Such a lar

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects - One Small Step Forward

2007-10-07 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi, --- Manoj_Rajkarnikar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great job solomon. Many of us have been trying to > achieve similar with > youtube and google vids. this will help a great > deal. how big of a > cachedir do you keep for youtube vids. should be > quite a big to be able to > cache the v

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects - One Small Step Forward

2007-10-07 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi All, the long skelatel howto: THE ENVIROMENT. Ubuntu, Squid 2.6, Apache 2.2, a small ISP with about 11% www.youtube.com traffic, 2Mbps on submarine fibre to the US cost about US$5,000 - US$7,000 over here - Accra, Ghana. THE PROBLEM Some Youtube clips are not cacheable, even with the overides

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects - One Small Step Forward

2007-10-07 Thread Solomon Asare
dy to deploy my squid for the whole network within the next few days. Windowsupdate still a headache though. Not found much that have been helpful yet. solomon. > > > --- Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On ons, 2007-09-19 at 01:45 -0700, Solom

Re: [squid-users] Re: Can Squid grab a list of files from a server and then Prefetch thost files?

2007-10-04 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi, another great program is httrack. solomon. --- RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:17:25 -0700 (PDT) > miles800 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Can Squid grab a list of files from a server and > then prefetch those > > specific files? I would like to be able to set

Re: [squid-users] I Want To Ping A Cache Object

2007-10-02 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi, Thanks very much. Regards, solomon. --- Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On mån, 2007-10-01 at 10:14 -0700, Solomon Asare > wrote: > > Hi All, > > thanks for the responses. I guess what I need is > > something like: > > > > squidclien

Re: [squid-users] I Want To Ping A Cache Object

2007-10-01 Thread Solomon Asare
I will prefer if it remained a local affair without contacting the remote server at all. But it works without much delay. Thanks, solomon. --- Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > > Adrian Chadd wrote: > > >On Mon, Oct 01,

[squid-users] I Want To Ping A Cache Object

2007-10-01 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi All, please, how do I tell I have an object in my cache without fetching the object. I want a command like: "wget --spider", but where I access only the cache without going to the origin server if the object is not available in the cache. I hope I have made my self clear. Regards, solomon.

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects - One Small Step Forward

2007-09-27 Thread Solomon Asare
:45 -0700, Solomon Asare > wrote: > > Hi Henrik, > > I have tried quite a lot, eg: > > refresh_pattern -i \.flv$ 10080 990% > > 99 reload-into-ims ignore-no-cache > > > > It caches only those objects which have not > already > > expired th

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-23 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi All, sorry, the refresh_pattern looked like: refresh_pattern -i get\_video\?video\_id\=.*youtube\.com 10080 990% reload-into-ims ignore-no-cache override-expire ignore-private ignore-no-store Regards, solomon. --- Solomon Asare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, >

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-23 Thread Solomon Asare
t 01:45 -0700, Solomon Asare > wrote: > > Hi Henrik, > > I have tried quite a lot, eg: > > refresh_pattern -i \.flv$ 10080 990% > > 99 reload-into-ims ignore-no-cache > > > > It caches only those objects which have not > already > > expire

[squid-users] Refresh Pattern Regex

2007-09-20 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi All, please what exactly do we match the refresh_pattern regex against? Is it the url, the whole header, mime, or what? Thanks, solomon.

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-19 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi Henrik, it looks hopeful, I will try your suggestion, Squid 3. Thanks again. I will report back. Already, just after deploying squid for about a week, I am saving 20% on banndwidth. Thanks, solomon. --- Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On ons, 2007-09-19 at 12:40 -0700

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-19 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi Henrik, --- Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what do the response headers look like for the > object in question? > Some Header Info from my logs on the objects that will not cache: Keep-Alive: 300\r\nProxy-Connection: keep-alive\r\n] [HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nPragma: no-cache\r

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-19 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi Henrik, --- Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried override-expire? yes, I have tried overide-expire without success, as in: refresh_pattern -i \.flv$ 10080 990% 99 ignore-no-cache override-expire ignore-private Thanks, solomon.

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-19 Thread Solomon Asare
lier. Any suggestion on a refresh_pattern to overcome (Last-Modified or ETag & minimum_expiry_time) limitation? Regards, solomon. --- Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On tis, 2007-09-18 at 09:25 -0700, Solomon Asare > wrote: > > Hi Henrik, > > since you s

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-18 Thread Solomon Asare
the apache with these objects. Its about bandwidth! Regards, solomon. --- Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On tis, 2007-09-18 at 02:55 -0700, Solomon Asare > wrote: > > > This is the exact problem I have that I am trying > to > > resolve, not querr

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-18 Thread Solomon Asare
Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007, Solomon Asare wrote: > > Hi Henrik, > > thanks for your insightful response. However, the > > object is a .flv file that hasn't changed in > months. > > The origin server certainly doesn't want the

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-18 Thread Solomon Asare
ECTED]> wrote: > On mån, 2007-09-17 at 11:55 -0700, Solomon Asare > wrote: > > Hi Amos, > > I am not sure if refresh_pattern is the sole > > determinant in caching an object, that is if it > has > > any influence at all. > > It has influence, both direct

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-17 Thread Solomon Asare
being served from the origin server, how do I cache it? Date and Last-Modified dates are also not set. Thanks, solomon. --- Amos Jeffries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Solomon Asare wrote: > > Hi, > > just to clarify: I don't mean getting a HIT, just > > caching th

Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-17 Thread Solomon Asare
, Sep 17, 2007, Solomon Asare wrote: > > Hi All, > > please, to recast, how do I cache expired objects. > I > > get responses with expiry dates being in the past > from > > some servers that I will want to cache. > > refresh_pattern > > > > adrian > >

[squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

2007-09-17 Thread Solomon Asare
Hi All, please, to recast, how do I cache expired objects. I get responses with expiry dates being in the past from some servers that I will want to cache. Regards, solomon.