Hi Amos, Thanks for your reply, below I am sending again it was disturbed in formatting earlier. The delay is somehow like the browser complete the communication from proxy as can be seen in the revolving icon of browser but the page appears after 3 to 4 seconds delay. I have used internet explorer and firefox for that. ______ delay_pools 1 delay_class 1 2 acl downloads url_regex -i .mp3 .avi .mpeg .wmv .exe .zip .dat .rm .rmvb .mpg .mp4 .3gp .qt .wma .mov .ram .rar .mpe .iso .doc$ .tar .rpm .msi .flv .swf .torrent .bin .tar.gz .deb .tar.bz .nrg .asf .vcd .yps .gam .img .cdi mdf .lcd .vob .wim .3gpp .3gpp2 .asx .avs .az .divx .hdmov .m2p .ogm .rts .rtsp .rv .vid .wm .psf .7z .cab delay_access 1 allow downloads delay_access 1 deny all delay_parameters 1 128000/128000 -1/-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Looking forward for the support. Regards, Muhammad Farooq ________________________________________________________________________ Save the environment. Please don't print this email unless you really need to. -----Original Message----- From: Amos Jeffries [mailto:squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 8:57 AM To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Delay Pool cause delay in response On 2013-01-04 04:43, Farooq Bhatti wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using with following compilation. > > [root@staffproxy ~]# squid -v > Squid Cache: Version LUSCA_HEAD-r14809 Firstly. This is LUSCA. A commercial fork of Squid-2. Please contact Xenion support about your issues or upgrade to a Squid which is supported by the Squid Project. > I discovers that when I enable the delay pool in my configuration > which looks like > > ========== > delay_pools 1 > delay_class 1 2 > acl downloads url_regex -i .mp3 .avi .mpeg .wmv .exe .zip .dat .rm > .rmvb .mpg .mp4 .3gp .qt .wma .mov .ram .rar .mpe .iso .doc$ .tar .rpm > .msi .flv .swf .torrent .bin .tar.gz .deb .tar.bz .nrg .asf .vcd .yps > .gam .img .cdi .mdf .lcd .vob .wim .3gpp .3gpp2 .asx .avs .az .divx > .hdmov .m2p .ogm .rts .rtsp .rv .vid .wm .psf .7z .cab delay_access 1 > allow downloads delay_access 1 deny all delay_parameters 1 > 128000/128000 -1/-1 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > I got very delay response to the sites of advertisement in particular > and the other site in general. But when I remove the delay pool the > squid response to the browser tremendously increase. I suggest you look up a basic primer on regex patterns and what the special regex characters mean. It should be very obvious to you them what the problem is and what you need to fix. Amos ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2637/5508 - Release Date: 01/03/13