Re: [squid-users] Low performance in tranfers duration

> Hi !!!
>
> I installed squid 3 stable on a Debian box, with 1Gb of RAM, 160 Gb of
> disk and AMD Optreon Dual Core, in transparent mode.
> The squid box have only one nework card and public IP.
> I have a Mikrotik router-box, and in this machine I have configured to
> send al http request (port 80) to port 3128 of my squid box.
>
> Everything seams work find, but sometimes I have very low performance
> in tranfers duration. I note in the cache.log that I have a lot of
> warnings messages with "forwarding loops detected", is the only error
> or warning I found.
> I don't put any routing rules in my squid box.
>
> It's ok? May be I have a configuration problem.

Definately a configuration problem. Squid is trying ask itself for new
data whenever that loop is mentioned.

You need to make absolutely sure that the router is never sending port-80
requests from the squid IP back to the Squid box.

Amos
Received on Wed Jun 18 2008 - 02:29:17 MDT