I found the answer: set "read_ahead_gap" to a buffer larger than the largest data chunk I transfer. - Dave On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 09:11:59AM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: > I have a reverse proxy squid on the same machine as my origin server. > Sometimes queries from squid are sent around the world and can be very > slow, for example today there is one client taking 40 minutes to > transfer 46MB. When the data is being transferred from the origin > server, the connection between squid and the origin server is tied up > for the entire 40 minutes, leaving it unavailable for other work > (there's only a small number of connections allowed by the origin server > to its upstream database). My question is, can squid be configured to > take in the data from the origin server as fast as it can and cache it, > and then send out the data to the client as bandwidth allows? I would > want it to stream to the client during this process too, but not block > the transfer from origin server to squid if the client is slow. > > I'm using squid-2.7STABLE9, and possibly relevant non-default squid.conf > options I'm using are: > http_port 8000 accel defaultsite=127.0.0.1:8080 > cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 8080 0 no-query originserver > collapsed_forwarding on > > - Dave
