RE: [squid-users] Slow downloads

From: BAARDA, Don <don.baarda@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:03:42 +0930

G'day,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Glennie [mailto:david@pisys.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 6:17 PM
[...]
> Check if squid is trying to cache the download file first.
> Squid is set to cache files above and below a certain size.
> If the max size
> is set too high and your download file is smaller than the
> max, squid will
> cache the download before sending it to you. This makes a
> download take
> twice as long. Any file above the max will not be cached but
> will be sent to
> you directly.

This is not true. Squid sends everything directly downstream as it is
fetched, regardless of whether it is cached or not. The
"fetch-all-first-then-forward" you describe above would add so much latency
it would make squid not worth using.

ABO
Received on Sun Sep 09 2001 - 17:33:36 MDT

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