G'day Stephen, On Sun, Sep 02, 2007, Stephen wrote: > Dear all, > > I am using Squid as a forward proxy. Download speeds through the proxy > to the internet, and internal webservers, are fine. [snip lots of debugging] > There is still some possibility that there is some kind of network, > adapter or adapter driver issue, but can anyone thing of why Squid > should be far slower from connected clients, than going through its > loopback address, for ** SSL traffic?** Non-SSL traffic is **fine**. A > much older version of Squid, 2.3 Stable 4, is also **fine**. Thats the most useful bit right there - you've found a behaviour regression. The SSL network code in Squid has been in a bit of flux during Squid's lifetime. > I am using Squid 2.6 Stable 14, with select loop (as its the only option > for my OS) and 8192 filedescriptors. The operating system is set with > selective ACK on and all the usual BSD-style defaults. The OS itself is > eCS 1.2R (EMX). Could you perhaps give the latest Squid-3.0 Pre-release (PRE7) a whirl and see if it has any better SSL behaviour? http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/ Also, could you please create a Squid Bugzilla entry so this can be tracked? Adrian
