Re: [squid-users] Major malfunction: Squid and Windows Update

From: Brett Glass <squid-users@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:04:12 -0600

At 02:27 AM 4/20/2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote:

>Wow. How come my intranet does not suffer from this at all despite lotsa
>folks with various dowload managers which (mis)use partial download?\

Partial downloads aren't the issue. Downloaders that use subranges
on very large non-cacheable files are what seem to cause the pathological
behavior. Windows Update and Intuit's QuickBooks update are the worst
offenders. I will publish details to this list shortly; I would have done
so sooner but my first priority was finding some kind of workaround. I
think I've finally come up with one whose primary drawback is that it could
waste space on the cache disk and/or evict useful objects from the cache.
But it does seem as if it will prevent the huge bandwidth waste we've been
seeing, at least until Squid's behavior is corrected.

--Brett Glass
Received on Thu Apr 21 2005 - 00:05:30 MDT

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