Re: [squid-users] tuning squid 2.3/2.4 on a slow connection

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Edward Millington
(Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
Carlisle House
Hincks Street
Bridgetown
Barbados
1-246-430-7435
Fax : 1-246-431-0170
www.cariaccess.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
To: "Babak Farrokhi" <farrokhi@earth.planet.co.ir>; "Joe Cooper"
<joe@swelltech.com>
Cc: "Edward" <edward@cariaccess.com>; "squid" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] tuning squid 2.3/2.4 on a slow connection

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Babak Farrokhi" <farrokhi@earth.planet.co.ir>
> To: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
> Cc: "Edward" <edward@cariaccess.com>; "squid"
> <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 8:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] tuning squid 2.3/2.4 on a slow connection
>
>
> > It's kinda limitation in wininet.dll and it's functions that does not
> open
> > more than 4 simultaneous connections to a website. I think increasing
> it
> > to 8 would increase the browsing performance. Right now I am looking
> for a
> > way to increase it and let internet explorer (and other apps using
> > wininet.dll) to browse faster. Does anyone know any trick about it?
> >
> > --
> > Babak Farrokhi
> > Network Administrator
> > Planet Networks,Inc.
> >
>
> HTTP/1.1 explicitly prevents user agents (aka browsers) form opening
> more than 2 concurrent connections to any one server. The use of request
> piplining more than makes up for the reduced concurrency given the
> overhead of multiple three way handshakes.
>
> As for wininet.dll limiting the whole machine to a given number, I'd
> class that as a bug. Each process should be limited, and per site/proxy,
> not as a blanket limit. Mind you, try asking Microsoft :].
>
> Rob
>
>