Re: Rate Limiting using SQUID

From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:22:13 +0200

tis 2007-04-17 klockan 21:32 -0700 skrev Anand Lakshminath:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to configure SQUID to rate limit requests to origin
> webservers. Basically, we don't want to hit any given website too hard
> and would like to throttle say 1 request per second.

The closest we have is the max-conn=N cache_peer option. Limits the
number of concurrent connections (==requests) to a given peer.

Plus the collapsed_forwarding feature which also helps a lot in reducing
storms on the backend servers..

Regards
Henrik

Received on Wed Apr 18 2007 - 16:22:19 MDT

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