The server had already been configured with the line half_closed_clients off --Brett Glass At 02:54 PM 12/8/2005, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >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