Re: [squid-users] Time-based oddity that I can't quite nail down...

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 03:12, Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh_at_gcd.ie> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 08 Nov 2009, Kurt Buff wrote:
>
>> During the normal work out at my company, the squid proxy is
>> reasonably responsive, and seems to work well.  However, after roughly
>> 5pm each day, through the night and all during the weekend, web browsing
>> is very slow, with pages taking a very long time (30+ seconds, to
>> sometimes minutes) to load.
>>
>> Does anyone have some suggestions on where I might start looking at
>> this problem? I haven't found anything in the logs that I can detect
>> as relevant. Stopping and starting squid makes no difference.
>
> The first thing I'd be inclined to try is to connect directly, bypassing
> squid and see does the problem go away.  If it's quick to connect directly,
> then squid is probably where the issue is.  If you still see the delays
> going direct then it's probably something else (eg high contention on your
> link).
>
> Gavin

That's good troubleshooting, but the firewall only allows the squid
server out on ports 80 and 443. I'll have to see if I can convince
management to allow it for troubleshooting purposes.

Kurt
Received on Mon Nov 09 2009 - 13:40:57 MST