Re: [squid-users] Squid3 issues

Your email is one long whining without much substance at all. I have been a
member of this list for over 3 years now, and been using Squid for a year
and a half. During all this time, I have always found this list to be
hospitable, and helpful.

If you don't like the software, then don't use it. It's not costing you
anything. That being said, I have almost never found any attitude from any
person on the list that says RTFM. Even when someone asks about obvious
things, someone is kind enough to point to the right direction.

We use over 4 Squid proxies (running 2.7STABLE7), running commodity
hardware, and their performance has been more than satisfactory to us.
However, we run all of them over CentOS 5+. Last year, even commercial
vendor Bluecoat could not give us a strong enough reason to show that their
product performed any better than Squid to justify the cost differential.

If it is file descriptors that is creating problems, then you need to read
the OS docs on how to increase that on the OS side. On CentOS, running
"ulimit -n" shows how many FDs are allowed by the OS.

As for Squid, a simple recompile with the "--with-maxfd=XXXX" flag worked
like a charm for me. Using "squid -v" is always handy to get the existing
compile-time flags first.

Whatever your frustration at this point, whining over at the forum, and
blaming everyone else and saying "admit that squid does not work", is pretty
lame.

Oh, by the way, I searched my email archives of the Squid Mailing List, with
your "email id", and it turned out there is only one email from you, and
that was only 15 hours ago, within which there have been 4 email responses
already. You did not even reply to one of them saying what did not go as
suggested.

Regards
HASSAN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gmail" <adbasque_at_googlemail.com>
To: <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 19:30
Subject: [squid-users] Squid3 issues

> Hello everyone,
> I have been trying for nearly 5 weeks now to get this piece of software to
> work, I have tried several versions, I have tried it on several platforms,
> all I got from it is frustration, I know that some people would say what a
> fantastic piece of software.
>
> I have used many softwares, packages, compiled stuff for years, never ever
> had an experience such as this one, it's a package full of headaches, and
> problem after problem, And to be honest the feedback I get is always
> blaming other things, why can't you people just admit that Squid doesn't
> work at all, and you are not providing any help whatsoever, as if you
> expect everyone to be an expert.
>
> I also don't like the attitude of some people, talking to you as if you're
> an "idiot", while in fact you follow their suggestions to the letter and
> yet it doesn't work, instead of blaming the operating systems and blaming
> people for not knowing how to use it, why can't you try and do something
> that works for a change, I have wasted nearly 5 weeks day in day out
> sometimes I stayed til 3 or 4 am trying desperately to get this thing
> working.
>
> For instance if I compile with no options I know that somewhere down the
> line I am going to find out that I needed this or that, if I compile it
> with some options I get errors that don't make any sense, examples.
>
> I uninstalled the version that was packaged with Ubuntu hardy, I am trying
> to compile it so I won't have the same problem, with the file descriptors,
> I followed exactly the suggestions in the configure --help menu, yet I am
> getting an error,
> like Compile cannot create executable, or something to that effect.
>
> Not to mention when I tried to run it, it didn't forward any requests, I
> have followed all of the configuration examples and people's suggestions,
> never could forward any request to my backend server.
>
> After three weeks I managed to get my clients to have access to the
> internet, and many applications didn't work, such as Yahoo, Msn, Steam and
> so on, when I ask for help, nobody has an answer including some members of
> the team.
>
> Yes I can hear some arguments, saying but we are volunteers, true, but you
> either do something that works or don't.
>
> If I needed help for say, Unrealircd or any other program I know I can get
> help, and their documentaion, does what it says on the tin. you follow
> their instructions, you will get it to work exactly as they say.
>
> With squid, it doesn't work, that's all I am getting, I don't even believe
> that it works now to be honest, I am sorry I am not moaning but it's true,
> I have been on many forums for weeks and all I could see were problems
> people are facing with any version of squid , and no solutions are given
> very few and after you fix one problem 10 others pop up somewhere else I
> certainly don't want to spend my life fixing and bashing my head trying to
> find a solution, I want something that works, but unfortunately it
> doesn't.
>
> I am just going to try something else somewhere else,
> Thanks all the same for anyone who tried to help, but this is not for me,
> life is too short to waste anymore of my time, in trying to get something
> that doesn't work, "working"
>
> If anybody can prove me wrong:
>
> Regards
> All the best to everyone
>
Received on Thu Mar 18 2010 - 14:13:24 MDT