Re: Hi there

Doug Dixon wrote:
> I've been a user of Squid for a few years now, and am interested in
> devoting some time to Squid-3.0 development, bugfixing and testing.
> In terms of features, I'm interested in helping with the reverse proxy
> stuff, e.g. collapsed forwarding etc.

Hi all

I'd just like to back up Dougs comments really. Have been using squid
for about a year on some heavy traffic sites as an accelerator which has
been a great performance booster. We have a load balanced cluster of
squids that have peaked at about 5.5k requests per second, and will
probably do more. There's no way the backend web servers would have
coped with that so squid has been a big plus for us. Thanks to all.

The discussion on whether to release a 2.6 has interested me recently,
as a squid2.5+rproxy+customlog+collapsed_forwarding would really be
useful to me.

The current rproxy patch patches against STABLE12, whilst the customlog
and collapsed_fowarding patches patch against STABLE13. Would it be
possible for the rproxy patch to be updated to patch against STABLE13?

I can offer a heavily used accelerator environment for testing
squid3/patches etc.

One small change we've made in our environment is to allow the
specification of the minimum explicit expiry time in seconds rather than
minutes as we have some objects that are hit multiple times a second but
are updated every 30 seconds or so. Works well for us.

Thanks,

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Michael Pye