Re: [squid-users] Cannot connect to squid port intermittently

Tejpal Amin wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> Disabling the iptables has had no effect , the problem of slow
> performance still exists.
>
> Can anybody help me on this.
> I am not able to figure out why squid is not able to accept connections.
> It still times out when I try to telnet to squid port 3218 from the
> squid box itself.
>
> Regards
> Tejpal
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Tejpal Amin <tejpal.amin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> HI Nathan,
>>>
>>> The number of file descriptor don't seem to be an issue since there is
>>> not entry of that in the cache.log.
>>> Ho do I check if the problem lies in the iptables?
>>>
>>> Warm Regards
>>> Tej
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:49 PM, "٩๏̯͡๏۶ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿̿’\\̵͇̿̿\\=(•̪●)‏
>>> Nathan Ridge" <ridgey_at_matilda.net.au> wrote:
>>>> Hi Tej,
>>>>
>>>> check your file descriptors and also iptables conntrack, I have had problems
>>>> in the past when either of these two settings are too low.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> On 14/05/10 11:11 PM, Tejpal Amin wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am performance issues with squid, sometimes users get page cannot be
>>>>> displayed.
>>>>> During the troubleshootign I found that doing a telnet to port 3128
>>>>> from my squid box itself time out or it connects after some time.
>>>>>
>>>>> I need help desperatley on this .
>>>>>
>>>>> Warm Regards
>>>>> Tej
>>>>

You will need to take a deep look at cache.log

Apart from the resource overload (FD or iptables conntracks).

Intermittent loss like this can also be due to a log rotation action,
restarting, rebuilding the index on a huge cache, or when doing garbage
collection on a very large cache.

Amos

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