RE: [squid-users] windowsupdate hanging

FWIW, I'm using SQUID 2.4 STABLE2 and run windows updates. I have the
cache set to 300MB and its memory set to 60MB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hno@hem.passagen.se [mailto:hno@hem.passagen.se]On Behalf Of
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 4:42 PM
> To: Allan Lyons
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org; rick@oregonfast.net
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] windowsupdate hanging
>
>
> I think it is an issue with files larger than or close to your cache
> size. When this happens Squid will have a very hard time to
> maintain the
> cache size as the active objects then is larger that the
> allowed cache
> size. It is supposed to deal with this, but this case is
> not very common
> and thus not as well tested.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Squid Hacker
>
>
> Allan Lyons wrote:
> >
> > I've been having trouble accessing windowsupdate.microsoft.com
> > through our squid proxy running on Linux. I checked the
> list archives
> > and back in August, someone else mentioned this as well but there
> > didn't seem to be any followup on that exact topic.
> >
> > I upgraded to 2.4Stable2 and had the same problem.
> >
> > I doubled the disk cache size and it then worked. I
> expect that once
> > the disk cache is full the problem will surface again.
> It seems to be an
> > issue with large files when the cache is full.
> >
> > Another user was having the same problem with Mac Updates. Check
> > Bug#150 in Bugzilla for more info.
> >
> > http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=150
>
Received on Mon Sep 17 2001 - 16:48:41 MDT