RE: [squid-users] Calculation of throughput...

From: Henrik Nordström <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:36:19 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Boosten, Peter wrote:

> I see that "half_closed_clients" is "on" by default. What will break if we
> change it to "off"?
> Has it any affect on the performance, or just on the numbers?

What will break is people using simplistic clients, such as a pipe using
nc. No normal browsers make use of half closed connections.

Having it off helps performance, as it allows Squid to abort requests
immediately when the client gives up, rather than having to wait for
something to write.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Aug 16 2002 - 01:36:22 MDT

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