Squid configuration directive client_lifetime

This directive is not available in the v8 version of Squid.

For older versions than v5 see the linked pages above


Option Name:	client_lifetime
Replaces:
Requires:
Default Value:	client_lifetime 1 day
Suggested Config:
The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or because of a poor client implementation). The default is one day, 1440 minutes. NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort. If you seem to have many client connections tying up filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout, request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.

client_lifetime