You should use a class 2 or class 3 delay pool. That will give you an option to shape traffic on machine level also.
http://squid-docs.sourceforge.net/latest/html/x1982.html (Beware of the section title "The Second Pool Class" which occurs twice) /Andreas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 12:15 PM Subject: [squid-users] delay pools starvation > Hello, > > I have this problem described in FAQ: > it is possible for one connection or a small number of connections to take > all the bandwidth from a given bucket and the other connections to be > starved completely, which can be a major problem if there are a number of > large objects being transferred and the parameters are set in a way that a > few large objects will cause all clients to be starved (potentially fixed by > a currently experimental patch). > > I have a delay pool set for downloading files ie. exe,mp3 ... > When some people start to use download accelerators and open 30 connections > per file or so > a normal user simply can't download anything. > > I have the latest stable version 2.5stable5. Can't find this experimental > patch that should solve this problem. Anyone know where to get it? > > Regards > Bar >
