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 -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. (R)etry, (A)bort, (C)ancer