Re: [squid-users] squid + axel

On Sunday 10 August 2003 11:38 pm, Bob Arctor wrote:

> it accelerates in two ways :
> 1)if you have more than one connection to the internet, and your proxy does
> load balance, or you have multiple interfaces in your machine, multiple
> parts of file are downloaded via multiple connections
>
> 2) if server is load balanced, and it's domain have many aliases, chosen
> round robin as you connect, each part of file is downloaded from different
> server

Both of these methods seem to assume that your connection to the Internet is
faster than the rest of the path to the remote server - which I frankly feel
is unlikely.

I really don't see that opening up multiple connections for downloading from
a remote server is going to improve your network's performance, unless there
is a deliverate throttle being placed in your path in order to share
available bandwidth with other users, in which case trying to bypass it is
almost certainly against the Acceptable Use Policy of the system you are
connected through.

If the remote servers are on a round robin DNS, then they're already going to
be nicely load balanced for different users each downloading complete files,
so there's no point in creating additional connections for each server by
only downloading part of the file from it.

I certainly can't see favourable support for this sort of thing getting
included in Squid.

Regards,

Antony.

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