[squid-users] Persistent Server Connections

Hello,

I am trying to squeeze a little more performance out of the squid in
http-accelerator mode and wondered about how the persistent connections
worked?

When I first set up the server. I had
server_persistent_connections on

But then I noticed that each apache connection would only serve a single
request then stayed open till the apache keep-alive time-out.

My process list was huge.

When I turned off persistent connection in apache and squid, the process
list went down dramatically and the websites were much more responsive.

I envisioned that squid would open up a connection and funnel requests
through it serially until one side closed the connection. Is this not
the case?

I have looked at directives like pipeline_prefetch but this doe not seem
like it will have the desired effect.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jerry

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Jerry Thomas            thomasj@scoregroup.com
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The SCORE Group         fax 305-662-8922