Is there any benefit to changing the read_ahead_gap when running squid as a reverse proxy? I'm running squid as a reverse proxy pointing at several origin servers. The average filesize is 300 MB. >From the documentation, I gather that the default read_ahead_gap 16 kb would keep the connection from squid to the origin server open for the duration of the client request. If I increase the read_ahead_gap to 500 MB, will squid slurp up the entire file in one read from the origin server? Also, does the file stay in memory as it's being sent to the client or is it written to the squid cache? i.e. do I need to worry about memory? Here's part of the configs: maximum_object_size_in_memory 100 MB collapsed_forwarding on http_port 80 accel defaultsite=origin.example.com read_ahead_gap 500 MB I'm running: 2.7.STABLE2 on RHEL5.2 64bit Thanks, Charlie
