Re: [squid-users] Will Delayed Pools to help with squid fetching content?

Etienne Philip Pretorius wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I am running Squid Cache: Version 3.1.3. and I wanted to cache windows
> updates and applied the suggested settings from
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/WindowsUpdate but now I am
> experiencing another problem.
>
> It seems that while I am able to cache any partial downloaded files with
> squid now, I am flat-lining my break out onto the Internet. I just
> wanted to check here before attempting to implement delayed pools. As I
> see it, it is squid fetching the file at maximum speed possible.
>
> So my question is, if I implement delayed pools for the client
> connections - will squid also fetch the files at those reduced rates?

Not directly. Squid will still fetch the files it has to at full speed.
However, indirectly the clients will be delayed in their downloads so
will spread their followup requests out over a longer time span than
without delays.

Amos

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