Sir, I have compiled Squid 2.6.13 on Fedora core 5 with delay pools enabled. Squid 2.5.14 never rate limited the local TCP_HIT traffic at delay pools rate. Local TCP_HIT traffic worked at LAN speed. But Squid 2.6.13 is rate limiting the TCP_HIT traffic also delay pools rate. Is this Expected?.. My Squid config:/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -v Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE13 configure options: '--build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr/local/squid' '--enable-epoll' '--enable-snmp' '--enable-removal-policies=heap,lru' '--enable-storeio=aufs,null,ufs' '--enable-ssl' '--with-openssl=/usr/kerberos' '--enable-delay-pools' '--enable-linux-netfilter' '--with-pthreads' '--enable-useragent-log' '--enable-referer-log' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--enable-cachemgr-hostname=localhost' '--enable-underscores' '--enable-cache-digests' '--enable-ident-lookups' '--with-large-files' '--enable-fd-config' '--enable-follow-x-forwarded-for' 'build_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' cat /usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf | grep -v ^$ | grep -v ^# hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? no_cache deny QUERY acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache broken_vary_encoding allow apache http_port 10.172.198.9:3128 transparent visible_hostname MOLMTM cache_mem 16 MB acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl siti src 10.172.196.0/24 10.172.197.0/24 10.172.198.0/24 10.172.199.0/24 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl SSL_ports port 443 563 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access allow manager siti http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access allow localhost http_access allow siti http_access deny all icp_access allow all cache_log none cache_access_log /cache1/log/access.log cache_store_log none cache_dir aufs /cache1/squidpool 36000 32 256 cache_dir aufs /cache2/squidpool 36000 32 256 half_closed_clients off maximum_object_size 40 MB maximum_object_size_in_memory 16 KB cache_swap_high 100% cache_swap_low 80% acl normalday time 07:00-22:00 acl nightdouble time 22:00-23:59 acl midnight time 00:00-07:00 delay_pools 2 delay_class 1 3 delay_parameters 1 192000/212000 -1/-1 9000/12000 delay_access 1 allow siti normalday delay_access 1 deny all delay_class 2 3 delay_parameters 2 162000/182000 -1/-1 29000/35000 delay_access 2 allow siti nightdouble delay_access 2 allow siti midnight delay_access 2 deny all [root@MOL ~]# I suppose Squid to serve TCP_HIT traffic at LAN speed... Regards, Rayudu. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7