Re: preventing one user to take all the bandwidth

Hi,

--- Emmanuel Thiry <ethiry@itechno.com> wrote:
> I run a Linux server with Squid 2.2.stable5 to share
> an Internet connection
> through a ISDN line.
> I noticed that when a single user downloads a big
> file from a high speed
> server, he eats the whole bandwidth and every other
> users are starved and
> their web sessions are dramatically slowed down.
>
> I understand that with delay loops I can limit the
> bandwidth allocated to
> one single connection.
> But I didn't understand if this limitation can be
> dynamical.
> What I mean is :
> -if my big downloader is alone on the line, I'm
> happy that he gets the
> biggest bandwidth available (say 7kB/s)
> -but when one (or more) other user connect to browse
> some web sites, it
> would be nice, at that time, to limit the download
> to, for instance, 80% of
> the total bandwidth, so that others can surf more
> comfortably. Of course,
> when the surfer quits, let the download use 100% of
> the bandwidth.
> Can it be done with Squid ?

According to my knowledge, I think It is not
possible.We can not change delaypool settings dynamically.

=====
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Received on Mon Jan 31 2000 - 22:53:06 MST