On Mon, Jan 21, 2008, Amitava Bhattacharyya wrote: > I followed this discussion: " Re: Re: Cache Streaming > Video?" (http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200701/0154.html). > Seems that making the maximum_object_size higher has an effect, so I > have set it to 50 MB. Calamaris says youtube.com is getting a hit of > 40%. > But the problem is not just youtube. People do download 100 MB+ files. > I want to test whether separating text/* mimetypes from the others and > putting the other mimetypes on a separate, bandwidth limited stream > would help. I thought squid-3 had some "class 4 delay pool" stuff to make this a possibility right now. You can fake it though, with tcp_outgoing_tos based ACLs. You set the TOS (or select another IP!) for certain mime types, and then rate limit that IP address. (I've done the latter quite successfully. ;) Adrian > > On Jan 20, 2008 9:44 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The first thing I'd do before looking at delay pools is to grab > > a few days of logfiles, pass them through calamaris or something > > similar and generate some traffic reports. > > > > If youtube is a big bandwidth hog then you may benefit from some > > of my work to make Squid cache youtube. > > > > > > > > > > Adrian > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008, Amitava Bhattacharyya wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I am a member of the Student Network Club at our institute. We are > > > facing problems related to slow access speeds, even though the > > > bandwidth is not so less (12 Mbps for students). We decided to set up > > > our own proxy server (since getting authorization to access/modify the > > > institute servers would take quite some time) to monitor utilization. > > > As part of this exercise, we would also like to implement delay pool > > > based bandwidth management. Since it is very likely that big downloads > > > and youtube are eating up the bandwidth, will a mime type based delay > > > pool work in this case? And how exactly do I set it up? > > > For example, if i define two delay pools, one based on based on hostel > > > IPs and the other on mime-types (question: would this be a class 1 > > > delay pool?), and say give limit of 16 kBps / 4 MB for the downloads > > > stream, how will this be enforced? Will this mean that _every_ > > > download less than 4 MB goes un-delayed, and beyond that it fills up > > > at 16 kBps? > > > > > > -- > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Amitava Bhattacharyya > > > PGP Class of 2008, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore > > > J-310, Hostel Blocks, IIM Bangalore > > > Bangalore, Karnataka 560076 INDIA > > > +919986695721 > > > > -- > > - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - > > - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > > Amitava Bhattacharyya > PGP Class of 2008, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore > J-310, Hostel Blocks, IIM Bangalore > Bangalore, Karnataka 560076 INDIA > +919986695721 -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
