At 02:27 AM 4/20/2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote: >Wow. How come my intranet does not suffer from this at all despite lotsa >folks with various dowload managers which (mis)use partial download?\ Partial downloads aren't the issue. Downloaders that use subranges on very large non-cacheable files are what seem to cause the pathological behavior. Windows Update and Intuit's QuickBooks update are the worst offenders. I will publish details to this list shortly; I would have done so sooner but my first priority was finding some kind of workaround. I think I've finally come up with one whose primary drawback is that it could waste space on the cache disk and/or evict useful objects from the cache. But it does seem as if it will prevent the huge bandwidth waste we've been seeing, at least until Squid's behavior is corrected. --Brett Glass
