Re: Hi there

On 19 Apr 2006, at 10:20, Michael Pye wrote:

> 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,
>
> --
> Michael Pye
>

Thanks for that

I'd like to catch up here if I may - what's rproxy? I gather it's a
patch to enhance Squid 2.5's reverse proxy capabilities, but where is
it, what does it do, etc? How cool is it? ;)

I couldn't find it on the Wiki or the Squid-2.5 Patches page, and
most stuff on Google is spread over pretty old posts to this list.

Out of interested - is the Wiki maintained much? I see a couple of
mods by Henrik in Feb this year, but not a lot else. I'd be willing
to do a bit of work on the wiki - I think they're really great for
documentation etc. but only if they're up to date, and therefore
become The Place To Go.

Cheers
D
Received on Tue Apr 18 2006 - 18:03:31 MDT