Dear list, I am using delay pools to slow down download when all parents are down and the child has to fetch the content itself via backup line. When troubleshooting low download rates I figured that the delay pools are slowing down transfer rates even when no-delay is set in the parent definition. Disabled delay pools as a workaround - everything is fast and fine. Yes, the request is definitely going via parent. child OS is debian etch/lenny with squid installed from repository, parents are debian lenny dto. squid from debian repository. same effect on childs running lenny and etch. This setup worked fine for ages! Any ideas?