On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Ed W <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/07/2012 14:12, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >> after limiting my bandwidth using delaypool, things seems OK. >> BTW i thought that Squid would be doing it automatically. > > > All the research on TCP up until very recently has been how to *maximise* > the amount of data flowing down a given pipe. Only recently has there been > a lot more thought into single streams NOT trying to maximise the flow to > match the pipe size... > > No systems right now really do anything other than try to download as fast > as possible (arguably latest bittorrent clients with this fancy new > reinvention of a tcp alike protocol are the only exception I can think of). > If you DONT want to max out a given pipe then you need to configure this in > some way > > Note you may have other problems which you might want to tune as well as > delay pools... > > Ed W > agreed, the reason is my limited knowledge about squid but for a person like me i am very new to Linux and i never experience such thing in all other OS and services like IPCOP, ISA 2000 to 2006, PFsence, monowall and all others therefore this was a bit surprising. Thanks,