Re: [squid-users] speeding up response

I now changed a setting (range_offset_limit -1 KB to be more precise) and to
my surprise (or maybe i'm fooling myself) the response seems to be alot
faster and the pages get displayed (almost) like they did before proxying.
not quite like before, but alot faster at least and now with the benefits of
proxying ;-) I don't quite understand the explaination given for the option.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>
To: "Kay Joplin" <err0r@lunastraat.homeip.net>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] speeding up response

> Kay Joplin wrote:
>
> > in the current situation, as i said before, i found that the settings
are
> > identical to those of my DNS client.
>
> Excellent.
>
> > I checked the cachemgr statistics and the replies seem to be well within
the
> > tenth of a second.
>
> Good.
>
> > Now, i'm using IE to browse and ocasionally Netscape (whichever suits
the
> > situation). I forgot to mention that i am using transparent proxying. I
have
> > to admit, i have a pretty slow connection, but still, before i installed
the
> > proxy, the pages seemed to appear on screen, be it partial, but still
> > readable which does not happen now that proxying is being used.
>
> Should still happen in the same manner as without a proxy, but keep in
> mind that at least Netscape 4.x is very poor at doing what you describe
> if the site uses tables.. often waiting until the whole page is
> downloaded before displaying anything (proxy does not matter).
>
> If your are using IE or another browser that is good at rendering pages
> while they are being downloaded and feel that Squid disturbs this then I
> can only think of two things
>
> a) Maybe your Squid is performing really badly, probably swapping a lot
> all the time.. Use system monitoring tools lime
> vmstat/iostat/sar/free/top to get a feeling of how your system behaves.
>
> or
>
> b) The browser being used do not agree with Squid on the use of
> persistent connections. Try if "client_persistent_connections off" in
> squid.conf makes any difference and report back here..
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
Received on Tue Jun 11 2002 - 07:19:53 MDT