Hi Forum, We're running Squid Version 3.3.8 (from repository) on Ubuntu server 14.04 LTS x64 as a caching proxy server for a mixed Linux/Windows network. We were attempting to cache apt-get and Windows updates using various refresh patterns but commented them out a few weeks ago after an issue where the squid server had downloaded over 100GB of data over 24 hours but in that time had served only about 6GB to clients. 100GB represents almost our entire normal monthly traffic. Most of the incoming Squid traffic was from Windows updates or Akamai servers. Prior to that the server had been running for months without an issue. Unfortunately the same thing happened again last night. The only remanent of the Windows Update cache commands we forgot to uncomment in squid.conf were: range_offset_limit 200 MB WindowsUpdate maximum_object_size 1 GB quick_abort_min -1 which we have since commented out and restarted the Squid server. The incoming traffic to Squid is being recorded by the syslog of our ASA5510 firewall and corroborated by our ISP's management console. Clients can only access the internet through the proxy. The outgoing traffic statistics are being reported by SARG, SquidAnalyzer and a custom tcpdump script of all traffic from the server and all three agree. So our question- is there any way that Squid can download content repeatedly, and many times in excess of what our clients are actually requesting? How can we debug this issue further? Grateful for any advice you some squidclient output: Squid Object Cache: Version 3.3.8 Start Time: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:11:20 GMT Current Time: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 03:14:41 GMT Connection information for squid: Number of clients accessing cache: 46 Number of HTTP requests received: 42126 Number of ICP messages received: 0 Number of ICP messages sent: 0 Number of queued ICP replies: 0 Number of HTCP messages received: 0 Number of HTCP messages sent: 0 Request failure ratio: 0.00 Average HTTP requests per minute since start: 173.1 Average ICP messages per minute since start: 0.0 Select loop called: 5688640 times, 2.567 ms avg Cache information for squid: Hits as % of all requests: 5min: 17.9%, 60min: 11.3% Hits as % of bytes sent: 5min: 4.2%, 60min: 7.2% Memory hits as % of hit requests: 5min: 73.5%, 60min: 63.0% Disk hits as % of hit requests: 5min: 0.0%, 60min: 17.2% Storage Swap size: 11278780 KB Storage Swap capacity: 44.1% used, 55.9% free Storage Mem size: 153892 KB Storage Mem capacity: 7.5% used, 92.5% free Mean Object Size: 23.21 KB Requests given to unlinkd: 0 Median Service Times (seconds) 5 min 60 min: HTTP Requests (All): 0.00000 0.03241 Cache Misses: 0.46965 0.18699 Cache Hits: 0.00000 0.00091 Near Hits: 0.04776 0.05331 Not-Modified Replies: 0.01745 0.00091 DNS Lookups: 0.01609 0.01609 ICP Queries: 0.00000 0.00000 relevant squid.conf cache_mem 2000 MB maximum_object_size_in_memory 1 MB # Log file locations access_log daemon:/var/log/squid3/access.log squid cache_store_log none cache_log /var/log/squid3/cache.log coredump_dir /var/spool/squid3 # Disk cache directory. cache_dir aufs /squid_cache/Squid3Cache 25000 16 256refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 dns_nameservers 127.0.0.1 icap_enable on icap_send_client_ip on icap_send_client_username on icap_client_username_encode off icap_client_username_header X-Authenticated-User icap_preview_enable on icap_preview_size 1024 icap_service service_req reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://127.0.0.1:1344/squidclamav adaptation_access service_req allow all icap_service service_resp respmod_precache bypass=0 icap://127.0.0.1:1344/squidclamav adaptation_access service_resp allow all url_rewrite_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squidguard/squidGuard.conf url_rewrite_children 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0 -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Squid-downloading-huge-amounts-of-un-requested-data-tp4670770.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users