Fix the squid package {completed}

heiko

For me, i´m waiting for 1.21 and then i will speak about the bounty and the squid problem with mhab12, so we will see..

chudy

Same here. A single connection like video stream downloads full speed without squid. using squid as proxy it slows down from 54kBps to 4kBps. using squid as transparent proxy it became worse 2kBps. I only get 54kbps when connecting multiple video stream download.

Now I try to test to sort things out. Using PCBSD installed squid head (bec i like the store_rewrite feature).
using the squid as proxy video stream is like a digital signal 4sec full 2sec 2kBps. Tuning the squid gives me 5 4mins full 2sec 2kBps.

Then try to copy squid compiled from pcbsd (after all they are the same freeBSD environment) run it at pfsense shell. connections still the same(even the squid tweked for performance).

On the other side im using in Windows XP (compiled using MinGW) squid as proxy. I got the speed full(at least the fullest speed i can get behind the router + windows XP squid as proxy).

eri--

I have studied this and it needs some work at how the squid transparent works.
There is even some tweaks at squid for not transparent proxy.

I have not time for this right now but will come back later at it if nobody beats me at it.

mhab12

Looking forward to it, Ermal.

chudy

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.

mhab12

This likely is the cause of/solution to the problem. I just checked my loader.conf, almost empty in my 1.2/6.3 pfSense build. Perhaps the older 1.2 Release had the offending line. I'll try adding the new lines later, but as stated before we were already at moving along pretty well. Thanks for the details chudy.