Re: [squid-users] qouta from squid

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> Leonardo Carneiro wrote:
>>
>> Hi Amos. If i create a bucket with the size of 100mb and a
>> regeneration rate of 0, wouldn't i be using some kind of quota? I
>> mean, when the user overpasses 100mb, he would not download anything
>> else i think.
>
> Delay pools are designed a bytes-per-second limit.
>
> Your proposed pool can look like a quota but it has no fixed times involved
> anywhere. Quotas as asked for require reset points longer than one second.
> (Which shows the small design change need to make them do quotas, but that
> still needs coding.)
>
> The user disappears for a short while and it's reset. But....
>  * you have no control over that reset time period. Its based on the users
> regularity of usage, more particularly their regularity of usage of the
> pool.
>  * if they re-appear near the end of the time period its extended!
>   ie a 'daily' pool for a heavy user (maximum pool duration) where user logs
> in late one day at say 9am and use that days pool up. Then next day they log
> in at their regular 7am and find themselves without access for a whole extra
> day.
>  * it cannot be set more than ~4MB pool size (32-bit signed integer of
> bytes), in Squid older than 3.1
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
>  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.5
>

Yeah, i got it now. As you said, it's not that far from a true quota
feature, but still needs coding. Tks for explanation.
Received on Sun Jul 25 2010 - 03:15:56 MDT