Re: [squid-users] Squid Slow Downloads problem

> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:38 -0600, Hesham Shakil wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 12:14 -0600, Hesham Shakil wrote:
> > > > Downloading files via squid (on Linux ONLY.. read below) is slower
than
> > > > without squid. The normal download speed bypassing squid is
28+KB/s while
> > > > through squid it reduces to 16-17KB/s. Browsing seems fine, and the
> > > > internet bandwidth tests also give 28+KB/s when run through squid,
so the
> > > > problems seems only with files 1MB+ in size.
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > You said that the download is faster without Squid.
> > > Is that on the same box? So are you downloading from the Squid box?
> > >
> >
> > Downloads on the Squid box itself or on other machines on the network are
> > all slow when connecting through squid proxy.
>
> So: You 're downloading on the Squid box, without using the Squid
> proxy ..and that's also slow? Correct?
>
> If that's the case, it has nothing to do with Squid but with the box
> itself. (Network cable, Duplex settings)
>
>

No, all I am saying is that downloads are slower when using Squid proxy
and fast when not using squid proxy, on both the Squid box and other
machines on the network. So this is a Squid problem :). As you can read in
the original email, I used apache+mod_proxy+mod_cache on the Squid box
(thats what i am using for the time being till the problem solves) and its
working fine, its only using squid that slows down downloads to almost
half the available bandwidth.

Hesham S. Ahmed
Received on Thu Feb 16 2006 - 13:54:10 MST