[TriLUG] squid3 not caching large objects

[Kevin Hunter Kesling via TriLUG]

At 3:31pm -0400 Sun, 24 May 2015, Kevin Otte wrote:
> I'm using a squid proxy on an Ubuntu 14.04 server to cache .deb
> packages so I don't have to hit the Internet for all ~10 machines in
> the house. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be caching packages
> larger than about 16MB. Since the kernel packages fall in this
> category, I'm not getting a lot of the benefit.

> Hopefully extra eyes can see what I've missed.

Apologies for the late response ... I'm probably not aware of all of the 
details, but have you considered using a different caching solution? 
I'm with limited surfing capabilities as I trawl my email just now, but 
I seem to recall some deb specific caching server.  apt-cacher, maybe?

It's not the perfect answer if you're trying to integrate your caching 
needs into a single solution (e.g., normal web browsing, apt), but I 
have used something to this effect in various administrative and image 
development tasks in the past.

A thought,

Kevin