Re: [squid-users] Squid problem with Akamai servers?

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 22:54:01 +0100

On 07.12 23:06, Brett Glass wrote:
> Just today, I noticed that a transparent Squid proxy running on
> FreeBSD 4.11 was really bogging down its Internet connection. So, I
> ran the "netstat" command, and discovered that the cache had huge
> numbers of open sockets (more than 100) to Port 80 on the Akamai
> server at our upstream provider. Any client sockets (that is,
> sockets from the clients to the proxy) that might have been
> associated with the transactions had all closed, but the sockets
> from the proxy to the Akamai server were in the "ESTABLISHED"
> state. The send queues on the sockets all seemed to contain about
> 50K bytes of data and were VERY slowly getting smaller.
>
> What's the likely cause of this? And why are all of the perpetually
> open sockets all to Akamai servers? Is anyone else out there seeing
> this behavior? I'm worried that there is some sort of adverse
> interaction going on between Squid and Akamai.

your problem may lie in half-closed connections:

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ.html#toc12.33

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