Re: [squid-users] Squid downloading same files many times?

Chris Robertson wrote:
> Elvar wrote:
>>
>>
>> Elvar wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Recently I discovered that one of my clients' bonded T1 links to the
>>> internet was getting maxed out for up to an hour at a time. After
>>> doing some research and using Sawmill to generate some usage
>>> statistics on the user surfing activity, I found that some users
>>> were downloading 1.5 gigs worth of Adobe Reader and other various
>>> downloads. Adobe Reader is obviously not that large and I know the
>>> user would just keep downloading it over and over on purpose. I'm
>>> wondering if somehow Squid is repeatedly downloading these files and
>>> if so, why? I've had squid running at this place for a long time and
>>> I've never seen anything like this. It's a real problem though
>>> because when it happens, the bandwidth is just leveled.
>>>
>>>
>>> The exact URL which was being accessed the most recent time is
>>> http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/re ​
>>> ader/win/8.x/8.1.3/enu/AdbeRdr813_en_US.msi <javascript:;> .
>>>
>>> Is anyone else experiencing something like this lately?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Elvar
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sorry about that, I accidentally forgot to send in plain text. The
>> URL again is
>>
>> http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/8.x/8.1.3/enu/AdbeRdr813_en_US.msi
>>
>>
>>
>> Could it be that the update is failing and continuously retrying?
>
> Have the following been adjusted from their stock settings:
>
> quick_abort_min
> quick_abort_max
> range_offset_limit
> maximum_object_size
>
> It sounds like the client is requesting the file in sections, but
> Squid is grabbing the whole thing. Since it is a 34MB download, it
> might be larger than your maximum_object_size (defaults to 4MB), and
> as such is not being cached.
>
>> Elvar
>
> Chris

This looks very promising. I'm thinking I will probably disable the
aborted fetching period and that will solve the problem. I'll post back
with results after testing it on Monday when the staff is back.

Thanks!
Elvar
Received on Sun Nov 23 2008 - 19:31:45 MST