Re: [squid-users] Re: squid with pdns, bandwidth control issue

From: Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:45:42 +0500

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Ed W <lists_at_wildgooses.com> wrote:
> On 02/07/2012 14:12, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>
>> after limiting my bandwidth using delaypool, things seems OK.
>> BTW i thought that Squid would be doing it automatically.
>
>
> All the research on TCP up until very recently has been how to *maximise*
> the amount of data flowing down a given pipe. Only recently has there been
> a lot more thought into single streams NOT trying to maximise the flow to
> match the pipe size...
>
> No systems right now really do anything other than try to download as fast
> as possible (arguably latest bittorrent clients with this fancy new
> reinvention of a tcp alike protocol are the only exception I can think of).
> If you DONT want to max out a given pipe then you need to configure this in
> some way
>
> Note you may have other problems which you might want to tune as well as
> delay pools...
>
> Ed W
>

agreed, the reason is my limited knowledge about squid
 but for a person like me i am very new to Linux and i never
experience such thing in all other OS and services like IPCOP, ISA
2000 to 2006, PFsence, monowall and all others

therefore this was a bit surprising.

Thanks,
Received on Tue Jul 03 2012 - 07:45:50 MDT

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