Re: [squid-users] (mis)understanding delay pools?

Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we're running the packaged Squid on Ubuntu LTS (2.6.18-1ubuntu3).
>
> I've configured squid with a delay pool as follows:
>
> acl accommclients_old src 10.2.0.0/16
> acl accommclients src 172.17.0.0/20
> acl studentclients src 172.18.0.0/16
> acl studentwificlients src 172.19.0.0/23
> acl summerschoolclients src 172.19.4.0/24
>
> delay_pools 1
> delay_class 1 1
> delay_access 1 allow accommclients accommclients_old studentclients studentwificlients
> delay_access 1 deny all
> delay_parameters 1 2500000/2500000
>
> which I thought would limit all of those IP ranges (together) to
> 2.5MByte/sec, ie 20Mbit/sec.
>
> However, the other day, we found squid consuming over 40Mbit/sec. This was
> mostly down to one individual user who was within the 172.17/20 range who
> was consuming well over 30Mb/sec.
>
> I presume I'm doing something wrong. Could someone point out my mistake or
> suggest something I should look at?
>
> Gavin
>

See
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl#Common_Mistakes

The YOU/ME example mistake is exactly the one you have made above.

Amos

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