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    • Cry HavokC Offline
      Cry Havok
      last edited by

      Yes, I am running beta.  Of course, given that the OP claims to be running 1.3 then 1.4 - yet 1.2 hasn't gone final yet, I think we've got a good range of releases for (non-)information gathering ;)

      We should find out in a week or so whether the problem is related to a post 1.2 Beta2 change or whether it's hardware related.

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        sullrich
        last edited by

        Can I borrow your time machine??

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        • Cry HavokC Offline
          Cry Havok
          last edited by

          Unfortunately somebody calling himself The Master stole it, muttering something about visiting a doctor ;)

          (Even if 1.2 isn't out at the end of the month I may upgrade to the latest RC anyway so I can get NUT support back)

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            acidrop
            last edited by

            hello!

            I also experience slow transfers with squid-2.6.5,pf 1.2RC3 and squidguard- 1.2.0_1 ,with squid in transparent mode.
            If i disable squid all web pages goes very fast.If i enable it the speed decreases at about 20-30%.It's not a big deal for me now but i would like to have it work better… :)

            thank you

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              dvserg
              last edited by

              @acidrop:

              hello!

              I also experience slow transfers with squid-2.6.5,pf 1.2RC3 and squidguard- 1.2.0_1 ,with squid in transparent mode.
              If i disable squid all web pages goes very fast.If i enable it the speed decreases at about 20-30%.It's not a big deal for me now but i would like to have it work better… :)

              thank you

              If disabled SquidGuard - speed slowly too?

              SquidGuardDoc EN  RU Tutorial
              Localization ru_PFSense

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                acidrop
                last edited by

                yes it is slow even if i disable squidguard and even if i put the web site in exeption list to not be cached by squid.

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                  dvserg
                  last edited by

                  @acidrop:

                  yes it is slow even if i disable squidguard and even if i put the web site in exeption list to not be cached by squid.

                  Traffic shaper used?

                  SquidGuardDoc EN  RU Tutorial
                  Localization ru_PFSense

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                    acidrop
                    last edited by

                    no i'm not using ts cause i have a dual wan config.

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                      mhab12
                      last edited by

                      no traffic shaper, but I'm seeing this too…

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                        fallen
                        last edited by

                        I can confirm that I experience the same slowdown when using the proxy.

                        No bandwidth throttling set.  No Traffic Shaper used at the moment, either.

                        I tried setting squid's "Overall Bandwidth Throttling" to the maximum my connection allows, in case "Disabled" wasn't working as it should, but this had no effect.

                        My maximum downstream speed is ~350kBps but I get between 175 and 200kBps when I use the proxy.

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                          chudy
                          last edited by

                          To Fix Squid

                          add this to the /boot/loader.conf

                          kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768
                          kern.maxfiles=65536
                          kern.maxfilesperproc=32768
                          net.inet.ip.portrange.last=65535

                          or just delete it and replace with

                          autoboot_delay="1"
                          #kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0"
                          hint.apic.0.disabled=1
                          kern.hz=100
                          #for squid
                          kern.ipc.nmbclusters="32768"
                          kern.maxfiles="65536"
                          kern.maxfilesperproc="32768"
                          net.inet.ip.portrange.last="65535"

                          you might ask why squid is so slow? its because default configuration of pfsense is router not as a server
                          thats why kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0" <- is set to zero. if you just simply remove this squid will be just fine.

                          but to tune the squid i add this
                          kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 32768
                          kern.maxfiles=65536
                          kern.maxfilesperproc=32768
                          net.inet.ip.portrange.last: 65535

                          i just figure out why squid is slow. but i don't like the binary package of squid. i'll be using the squid HEAD bec of the store_rewrite feature for caching youtubes videos and other video files and mp3.

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                            isonski
                            last edited by

                            hello all,

                            i seem to experience the same problem/situation, and configured /boot/loader.conf as suggested and re-start the squid service. but after half an hour, squid and squidguard suddenly stopped functioning… tracing the cause of the problem, i found out that /var/squid/cache occupied the available disk space, therefore stopping the services. could the modification in /boot/loader.conf caused this? can you please explain what's the effect of each line of the modification to /boot/loader.conf?

                            thank you very much for clearing this up.

                            allison

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                              mlabenda
                              last edited by

                              WOW this makes a big change to squid !!!

                              Thank You

                              Now it is helpfull and not a pain anymore

                              Is there anywhere a squid 3.0 based package for pfsense ?

                              Microsoft gives you "Windows"
                              Opensource gives you the whole house

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                                mhab12
                                last edited by

                                The change must be made to loader.conf in 1.2.2_RELEASE as well.  I was suffering from the exceptionally slow transfers until I commented out the #kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0"

                                @Devs
                                What are the advantages of this argument?  Why was this changed temporarily in the 1.2/FreeBSD 6.3 Release?  Any insight would be greatly appreciated.  Perhaps someone could also commit a change to the Squid packages so that the loader.conf gets updated upon package installation.

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