Re: squid cache

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:26:49PM +1000, Brian May wrote:

> Anyway, from my log files, this was the first time I down-loaded it:
> 
> 1002867566.597 657810 192.168.87.132 TCP_MISS/200 4194 GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.4_i386.deb - DIRECT/203.16.234.20 application/x-debian-package
> 
> Not sure what this is, 2 minutes later, I can't remember it myself,
> however, it says it should be cached:
> 
> 1002867660.058  93461 192.168.87.132 TCP_HIT/200 368098 GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.4_i386.deb - NONE/- application/x-debian-package
> 
> Now trying it on another computer (approx. 5 minutes later):
> 
> 1002868015.839  10828 192.168.87.130 TCP_MISS/200 4526 GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.4_i386.deb - DIRECT/203.16.234.20 application/x-debian-package
> 
> Over 2 hours later, the first computer downloads it *again* for some
> unknown reason which I really can't remember:
> 
> 1002876131.609 403940 192.168.87.132 TCP_MISS/206 4194 GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.4_i386.deb - DIRECT/203.16.234.19 application/x-debian-package
> 
> and again:
> 
> 1002876199.324  67714 192.168.87.132 TCP_MISS/206 247895 GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.4_i386.deb - DIRECT/203.16.234.20 application/x-debian-package

This is all very fishy.  Why is the "bytes delivered" value (directly
after the result code) different for every one of these requests?  Did
you abort the transfer part-way through?  If so, and you still want the
request to be finished and cached, check the quick_abort_* values in
squid.conf

-- 
 - mdz