max object size.??

        In my squid 1.0.5 install, I find this in the configuration
file:

# TAG: ftp, gopher, http
# Object size limits (in MB) and default TTLs (in minutes)
# per access type.
#
# You cannot have a max object size that is greater than
# cache_mem. We recommend that max object sizes are no greater
# than (cache_mem / 4).
#
# Objects greater than max-obj-size will be proxied, but not
# cached.
#
# The defaults are:
#
# Access Type Max Object Size TTL (note: 4320 minutes = 3 days)
# --------- ---------------- -----------
#gopher 4 4320
#http 4 4320
#ftp 4 4320

        What happens to us, though, is that downloads that are
approximately greater than 4M will fail. Here's an entry in our logs:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [13/Aug/1996:02:01:04 -0500] "GET http://207.68.137.46/msdownload/ieinstall/msie30m.exe" TCP_HIT 4323060

        that file, 'msie30m.exe', is actually 8053760 bytes. It seems
that the description "Objects greater than max-obj-size will be proxied..."
is not true...

        all I did was a very stock install, I modified nothing (that
I can recall anyway :) If anyone has any tips for me, I'd really
appreciate it.

        Thanks,

        Ed

        (ps I'm upgrading to 1.0.6 today. Looking forward to 1.1!)
Received on Tue Aug 13 1996 - 07:52:55 MDT