On 11/04/2014 12:28 a.m., Nick Hill wrote: > I found the discussion on the web post. On Nabble, which I presume > will not feed back to this list. I located the discussion forum from > the web site, have subscribed, and hope the message will be useful. A > web interface to this mailing list could be very useful to capture > important information from those users who seldom have something to > add. > > I use a similar configuration on my Squid to the one used by HilltopsGM. > > Microsoft have recently released an update 4Gb in size for Windows 8, > with range request downloads. This will likely cause Squid to use > excessive bandwidth. My cache was slaughtering bandwidth until I made > some changes. > > it appears Microsoft now use psf files, which appear to cache OK. > > #Note: include psf files > refresh_pattern -i > microsoft.com/.*\.(cab|exe|ms[i|u|f]|asf|wm[v|a]|dat|zip|psf) 4320 80% > 43200 reload-into-ims > refresh_pattern -i > windowsupdate.com/.*\.(cab|exe|ms[i|u|f]|asf|wm[v|a]|dat|zip|psf) 4320 > 80% 43200 reload-into-ims > > #Having already defined the windowsupdate ACL, > range_offset_limit -1 windowsupdate > quick_abort_min -1 KB windowsupdate > maximum_object_size 5000000 KB windowsupdate > Thank you for the details. I have updated the wiki patterns and notes: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/WindowsUpdate Amos
