Re: [squid-users] mime-type based delay pools

I followed this discussion: "[squid-users] Re: Re: Cache Streaming
Video?" (http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200701/0154.html).
Seems that making the maximum_object_size higher has an effect, so I
have set it to 50 MB. Calamaris says youtube.com is getting a hit of
40%.
But the problem is not just youtube. People do download 100 MB+ files.
I want to test whether separating text/* mimetypes from the others and
putting the other mimetypes on a separate, bandwidth limited stream
would help.

On Jan 20, 2008 9:44 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> wrote:
> The first thing I'd do before looking at delay pools is to grab
> a few days of logfiles, pass them through calamaris or something
> similar and generate some traffic reports.
>
> If youtube is a big bandwidth hog then you may benefit from some
> of my work to make Squid cache youtube.
>
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008, Amitava Bhattacharyya wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am a member of the Student Network Club at our institute. We are
> > facing problems related to slow access speeds, even though the
> > bandwidth is not so less (12 Mbps for students). We decided to set up
> > our own proxy server (since getting authorization to access/modify the
> > institute servers would take quite some time) to monitor utilization.
> > As part of this exercise, we would also like to implement delay pool
> > based bandwidth management. Since it is very likely that big downloads
> > and youtube are eating up the bandwidth, will a mime type based delay
> > pool work in this case? And how exactly do I set it up?
> > For example, if i define two delay pools, one based on based on hostel
> > IPs and the other on mime-types (question: would this be a class 1
> > delay pool?), and say give limit of 16 kBps / 4 MB for the downloads
> > stream, how will this be enforced? Will this mean that _every_
> > download less than 4 MB goes un-delayed, and beyond that it fills up
> > at 16 kBps?
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Amitava Bhattacharyya
> > PGP Class of 2008, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
> > J-310, Hostel Blocks, IIM Bangalore
> > Bangalore, Karnataka 560076 INDIA
> > +919986695721
>
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Best regards,
Amitava Bhattacharyya
PGP Class of 2008, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
J-310, Hostel Blocks, IIM Bangalore
Bangalore, Karnataka 560076 INDIA
+919986695721