Thanks Amos for the quick and thorough response. The current use of squid for our needs is exactly reverse-proxy, So i guess changing to shorter keep-alive/idle timeout makes sense for our usage. For the second point - I understand that if the client disconnects the server can free up resources, but for less disciplined clients - it might be interesting to consider... Thanks again, Gadi -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/client-idle-pconn-timeout-default-value-tp4663357p4663362.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.