pfSense / Squid /Squidguard

[Jude Elliot]

Any Christchurch experts in using this please?

Am encountering snail pace internet once students arrive at school lasting til they leave. Errors being spawned in system logs but I don't have the knowledge to know how to fix if this is the problem. My main tech support who set the proxy up is out of NZ for the next 10 days.

Thanks

Jude Elliot

Darfield High School.

ju...@darfield.school.nz

[Andrew Godfrey]

Hi Jude,

We've been using it for a number of years now. I installed and configured it so would be happy to pass my eye over your setup if you want.

Send me the logs and I'll see what I can do.

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Andrew Godfrey  |  Network Manager  |  Burnside High School  |  Christchurch | New Zealand

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[trevor storr]

Hi jude,

It would be interesting to see the logs.  Here we have no problems at all with a maximum of 5 child threads so my initial thought is that this is not the problem.

[Craig Knights]

we used to run into trouble with a lack of I forget the word.. inodes?
file descriptors?

with a big cache it would periodically go super slow and fill the logs
with it's complaints..

Craig

[Jude Elliot]

Thanks Andrew and Trevor for phone help today. 

With the particular version of pfSense we have 5 is the default too but when I looked back at the backup config it had previously been set at 20. I think this may have been changed last year when we had trouble with slow internet and pages not loading. A new config file was saved on 22 Jan but the custom option "url_rewrite_children" was back to 5. The effect this seems to have had is to stop loading webpages when there were too many requests ie when the students got to period 1 and then for all class time. Once they left staff on site could use the internet again. I upped this to 20 and it was still not that great although better.  Bear in mind we have 780 students using BYOD, COWS and effectively 4 labs as well as many staff so maybe the heavier use is why it doesn't cope at 5. Still got the system log filled with errors, but changed then to 50 and no problems for the afternoon  - absolutely no system log errors so Friday will be the test.  Will keep you posted. Will try to figure out how to get the log, Trevor.

Cheers guys - I appreciated your help 

Jude