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    Does squid throttling work?

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      sullrich
      last edited by

      It works outside of the shaper.  It should work, if it does not then we need to either fix it or remove the option.

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        crni
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        Well I set filters for throttling and I set throtlle speed , but nothing seams to be hapening, it allways uses my full bandwidth.
        My shaping works really fine, but i wanted to throttle certain type of files even further by fixed amount but it doesen't seam to be working, if there is some special kind of procedure of setting this up, could you please share it here :).

        Thanks.

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          sullrich
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          Please take a screen shot of the Squid settings screen and also show your /usr/local/etc/squid.conf file

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            crni
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            I'm sorry but when i try to load file "/usr/local/etc/squid.conf" form edit in web interface i get file not found. :(

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              sullrich
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              Woops, that is suppsoed to be /usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf

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                Guest
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                Incidentally, the delay pools and "throttling" settings for squid are really notoriously hard to test unless you know what you're doing and how squid works.  I recommend taking a look at the squid mailing list for some recommendations on the best ways to ensure that this stuff is working for you because there's a lot of really weird entropy that can come into play.

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                  crni
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                  Here is my sqid config, in gui I set it to 30 kilovayts per sec, but i dont see it anyware in config file.

                  =========================================================================
                  http_port 192.168.1.1:3128
                  icp_port 0

                  pid_filename /var/run/squid.pid
                  cache_effective_user proxy
                  cache_effective_group proxy
                  error_directory /usr/local/etc/squid/errors/English
                  visible_hostname localhost
                  cache_mgr admin@localhost

                  cache_access_log /dev/null
                  cache_log /var/squid/log/cache.log
                  cache_store_log none
                  acl localnet src  192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

                  cache_dir diskd /var/squid/cache 500 16 256
                  cache_mem 8 MB
                  maximum_object_size 4 KB
                  minimum_object_size 0 KB
                  cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA
                  memory_replacement_policy heap GDSF
                  offline_mode off

                  No redirector configured

                  acl all src 0.0.0.0/0
                  acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
                  acl safeports port 21 70 80 210 280 443 488 563 591 631 777 901 1025-65535
                  acl sslports port 443 563
                  acl manager proto cache_object
                  acl purge method PURGE
                  acl connect method CONNECT
                  acl dynamic urlpath_regex cgi-bin ?
                  no_cache deny dynamic
                  http_access allow manager localhost
                  http_access deny manager
                  http_access allow purge localhost
                  http_access deny purge
                  http_access deny !safeports
                  http_access deny CONNECT !sslports

                  http_access allow localhost

                  request_body_max_size 0 KB
                  reply_body_max_size 0 allow all
                  delay_pools 1
                  delay_class 1 2
                  delay_parameters 1 -1/10485760 30720/10485760
                  delay_initial_bucket_level 100%
                  acl throttle_exts url_regex -i "/var/squid/acl/throttle_exts.acl"delay_access 1 allow throttle_exts
                  delay_access 1 deny all

                  http_access allow localnet
                  http_access deny all

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                    Guest
                    last edited by

                    Strange, I do:

                    delay_parameters 1 -1/10485760 30720/10485760

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                      crni
                      last edited by

                      @submicron:

                      Strange, I do:

                      delay_parameters 1 -1/10485760 30720/10485760

                      Damn pwned. :)

                      But that still doesent change the fact that there is no throttling. :D

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                        Guest
                        last edited by

                        Have you read any of the threads in the squid mailing list about throttling and delay_pools?  What exactly are you using to determine that they aren't working?

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                          crni
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                          Been busy last couple of days, gonna check that out.

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