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 -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
