Re: [squid-users] Delay pools

Henrik,

I am starting to understand now. All values in delay_parameters are in Bytes
instead bits. That made me confuse.

Thanks for your help.

Thx & Rgds,

Awie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>
To: "Awie" <awie@eksadata.com>
Cc: "Squid-users" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Delay pools

> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 05.41, Awie wrote:
> > Finally..... I am still confuse about the number.
> >
> > Below a sample for delay_parameter, but I don't know how to do a
> > calculation.
>
> >From the squid.conf documentation:
>
> A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore
> is the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are
> usually quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and
> maximum is the maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at
> any time.
>
> For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
> above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to
> 64kbps (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
>
> delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
>
> Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
>
> And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
> example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict
> limit) with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and
> each individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of
> 64kb to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
> (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
> large downloads more significantly:
>
> delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
>
>
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
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Received on Tue Apr 29 2003 - 06:02:02 MDT