Squid Doesn't Seem To Be Caching

jpvonhemel

Hello,

New to pfSense and installed squid earlier in the week, enabled transparent mode on the LAN per the pfSense docs and enabled squid. I left https filtering off per the defaults.

Now I am not sure the package is working as intended. As I understand squid, i should cache things like updates, so redownloads on other machines come from the cached data, not the WAN. It should also speed up http data on subsequent views.

My Squid Access Log is empty. Here is a screenshot from dropbox.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0hwl8bom3kzg2j/Screenshot%202016-05-20%2005.49.43.png?dl=0
I would appreciate some guidance in troubleshooting this. I am not sure where to begin.

Thank you,
Jerold

aGeekhere

PackageProxy Server: Cache ManagementLocal Cache - enable Cache Dynamic Content

and try adding Custom refresh_patterns
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=111518.0

jpvonhemel

Cache Dynamic Content was enabled but there were not any refresh_patterns. Will research refresh patterns syntax and go from there.

Thanks for the point in the right direction

Jerold

jpvonhemel

I added the following refresh pattern to my custom refresh patterns and cache dynamic content is checked.

refresh_pattern ^http://www.cnn.com/.* 720 100% 4320

After saving the above, I stopped and restarted squid. I went to www.cnn.com

It does not appear to be caching as the logs are not showing anything cached and /var/squid/cache/00/00 is empty.

[2.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.XXXXXX]/: ps -auxww | grep squid
root    12635   0.0  0.4  59956  15596  -  Is    4:38PM     0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/squid -f /usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf
squid   15816   0.0  0.9 133664  36232  -  S     4:38PM     0:00.50 (squid-1) -f /usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf (squid)
squid   16257   0.0  0.1  37616   4604  -  I     4:38PM     0:00.02 (unlinkd) (unlinkd)
squid   16706   0.0  0.1  37752   4832  -  S     4:38PM     0:00.03 (pinger) (pinger)
root    53647   0.0  0.1  46568   5772  -  S    Wed09AM     0:06.98 /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd_ls -f /var/etc/lightsquid/lighttpd_ls.conf
root    46378   0.0  0.1  18740   2248  0  S+    4:39PM     0:00.00 grep squid

Here is a link to my real time page

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6pgrtylqi307thc/Screenshot%202016-05-21%2016.48.41.png?dl=0

Any other ideas to help me set Squid up to work?

Thanks,

Jerold

jpvonhemel

This morning I decided to remove the squid package as well as update to 2.3.1. Once I reinstalled the squid package, it started to cache data. Not sure if this was a 2.3.1 issue, or a corrupt package install.

This was the solution to my issue.

W4RH34D

Just wanted to chime in.

I had it setup where I was primarily using Ram as cache. In that setup there weren't any access logs.

Once I had started using the primary storage as cache is when I saw the access logs.

jpvonhemel

I failed to remove the settings in squid.conf, so the were set to cache to /var/squid/cache. The reinstall picked up the old squid.conf settings and is now working well.

My install was corrupted somehow, just not sure how.