Re: Limiting bandwidth rates on certain files

From: Xavier Baez <tech@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 19:03:09 -0500

Dear Joe

Could you please tell me if this solution was working already?

I will really, really like to test it

Regards

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S. A. Tech Department

Joe Cooper wrote:

> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 1 May 2004, Xavier Baez wrote:
>>
>>
>>> My question is this. If I use Squid as an http accelerator, could I
>>> configure it so that it will limit transfer rates of certain files?
>>
>>
>>
>> Delay pools is not applicable to accelerator setups due to their
>> design of limiting how fast Squid reads data from the server, not how
>> fast Squid deliers data to clients.
>>
>> For your situation another variant of shaping is needed, and some C
>> coding is required to have this implemented in Squid.
>
>
> There is a branch of this for 3.0. Robert did the work about 9 months
> ago. It could probably be brought up to date without too much pain,
> if someone takes the time to do it. I think it is still in Roberts
> pseudo-private arch repository. (Note: I don't plan to work on it, or
> spend any time/money on it at the moment and I'm pretty sure Robert
> doesn't either, but if anyone wants to pick up the project, I'll make
> sure you get the last revision I have.)
>
>
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