The delay_parameter it's in bytes not bits. Try and tell if work !! On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > please help me. delay_parameter 1 32000/10240000<---- this means if i > complete10MB what ever the size would be regardless of that my > bandwidth would be limited to 32KB but in this case i can only able to > download 5MB and then my bandwidth shrink downs to 32KB. why ...... > please help me. i search squid website it is clearly stating that > delay parameters accepts "bytes" as a value. please help > > Thanks. > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> here is my acl and i want to limit download after every 10 MB of >> download. now i am a bit confuse now. why this value giving me >> expected result. >> my_ip src 10.51.100.240 >> delay_pools 1 >> delay_class 1 1 >> delay_parameters 1 10000/20000000 >> delay_access 1 allow my_ip >> >> according to my learning and understanding with squid delay parameters >> directive, it accepts bites as values. please correct me if wrong >> because i am a newbie. >> so according to my computation the calculation should be some thing >> like that. 10M should be >> >> 10 x1024 = 10240KB >> 10240x1024 = 10485760 Bytes >> 10485760 x 8 = 83886080 bits >> >> now 20000000 is giving me the desired result except 83886080. why? >> >> Please correct me and tell me what is wrong with my calculation or >> understanding. >> >> Thanks, >> >> MYK