Re: timeouts

Javier Puche. CSIC RedIRIS wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Running Squid 1.1.18 on a Sun Ultra-2 running Solaris 2.6 I am having
> the following problem:
>
> Some requests return a timeout error, the thing is that Squid returns
> the timeout error in a very little time (about 10 secconds or less).
> The directive for timeout is set to about two minutes so the only
> reason I suspect is that the Operating System TCP stack has some
> parameter that needs tuning for being more permisive with timeouts, I
> am trying to find it but if any of you has had any experience with that
> I thank the help. Any help from people who had also suffered timeouts
> problems will be great, the problem might be other that what I was
> pointing out.
>
> Our links with USA have very high packet loss, but going directly
> instead of through the proxy, the document is normally succesfully
> retrieved (though pretty slowly)

Such are the complaints I'm getting. Doesn't work with the proxy, works
fine direct. Of course, a few hours later when I come to check it...No
problems. I pin it on the browsers retrying connections (which they do, if
the first fails).

D

> Browsing today's log I see 14000 TIMEOUT_DIRECT (out of 1 million
> TCP+UDP requests, only 169236 external fetches) and Calamaris
> statistics show that almost 7% requests are ERR_CONNECT_FAIL; there
> are few ERR_READ_TIMEOUT ... by the way, where can I find info on the
> meaning of each ERR code ??

Try the user-guide or the FAQ. Both accessible from the Squid homepage,
http://nlanr.net/Squid/Also, check out the release notes for Squid.

D

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