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Re: Re: Should I see a massive slowdown when chaining squid => privoxy

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On 04/06/11 16:23, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
On 04/06/2011 02:05, sichent wrote:



Setup: Gentoo linux OS on squid and privoxy home lan server
Squid-3.1.12
privoxy-3.0.17

I'm not running an html server, just trying to use squid and privoxy
for my own browsing.


Why not to use ICAP or URL rewriter functionality built into Squid to
achieve the same results as privoxy instead of having this "chaining"
setup?

Sorry for possible offtopic :)
What offtopic?
the only problem i can thing of is cpu and process management on this
server.
icap is a nice idea and i can recommend one
http://greasyspoon.sourceforge.net/
you must know basic programming to make it work and they have rules
samples.
if your hardware capabilities are low you will get most likely poor
results on both privoxy and ICAP.
also i will send later the settings for working with greasyspoon on
squid 3.2

another question.
are you by any change made a speedtest on the current setup?
if you do get the right speed but wrong speed to get the page processed
it's a known side effect of privoxy.

Regards
Eliezer
sich



Speed gain/loss/other depends on what you are moving from.

MORE IMPORTANTLY: how you define "slow"!

Keep in mind that you also now have around 2x the processing going on with 2 proxies. The difference added by Squid can be at least 10ms. Some people call that noticeable slowdown. Some dont care about anything less than a second.


* 3.1 is about 10-20% slower than the latest 2.7 on the same config. With the older versions of 3.1 being on the slower end of that scale as we work to optimize and fix things throughout the series.

* Moving to Squid from a non-proxy setup can be a major drop down depending on the browser age. The browsers themselves drop the parallel fetch rate from hundreds down to under 10. Browser tweaking is the only way to avoid this.

* Moving from browser->privoxy to a browser->squid->privoxy setup you should have seen only a small drop. Some possibilities are Squid using slow disks (maybe RAID), or Squid box is swapping, or the bandwidth is being routed down the same physical links to/from Squid.

Amos
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Please be using
  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.12
  Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.8 and 3.1.12.2


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