Re: pre-ordered delay pool

> Which is true, 1 or 2?
>
> 1) Hosts limited to a certain bandwidth by delay pool will not exceed
> this bandwidth for all files served by squid, whether such files have
> been already stored in squid cache, or are being downloaded directly
> from internet.
>
> 2) Delay pool bandwidth limitation limits only files downloaded directly
> by the limited users at that time. Files that were stored in squid cache
> before are served to all users as fast as possible.

It's number 2. Delay pools only apply to incoming traffic. They can be made
even more selective than that by configuration, ie, selectively by parent or
peer disable delay pools, or by ACLs.

It is important to be aware of the caveats of each particular version with
respect to delay pools.

The latest version still has -
  * delay pools are processed as a 'fast' acl, so you can't depend on things
    like DNS lookups being done by Squid in processing the acl.
  * the patch to fix the delay pools starvation issue hasn't been integrated
    yet AFAIK.

David.
Received on Wed Sep 29 1999 - 03:21:35 MDT