Re: [squid-users] Squid intermittently fails with 503 after connect

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Alfredo Rezinovsky
<alfredo_at_fing.uncu.edu.ar> wrote:
> El 16/09/13 18:35, John McGowan escribi�:
>>
> squid defaults connect_retries to 0
> try setting it to something and see if the 503 errors frequency are lower
> with this.
>

I remember looking at that configuration parameter, but there were two
things that stopped me from working with it.

1) I believe it's only available in squid 3, and I'm using squid 2.X
(what's available via yum from CentOS 5.X)

2) This line from the documentation...

This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
complete within the connection timeout period.

I may be reading this wrong, but in my situation, if I had a low
timeout, it seems like it wouldn't do any good to increase
connect_retries, since the first connect attempt is likely to use up
the complete timeout period available.

-- 
John McGowan