Re: [squid-users] simple question about how far and fast squid fetch the object

Evren Yurtesen wrote:
>
> I looked at many pages for hours now including the mailing list archives
> but can't find a clear answer to the question in my mind.
>
> some information about the question:
> the clients have 64kbit physical bandwidth(ISDN line)
> and the server has 1mbit connection.
>
> actual question:
> when a client requests a file, does the squid request the file using the
> whole bandwidth and finish the fetching as fast as possible
> or
> it fetches the file as fast as the client can accept? In other words, as
> fast as the data sent to the client is acknowledged.
>

Squid pulls it in as fast as it can into its own buffers, which are
wohompingly
huge. There used to be a limit to how far ahead it was willing to get, but
I'm pretty sure that's gone.

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