[squid-users] Delay Pools Parameters

Amos Jeffries squid3 at treenet.co.nz
Mon Nov 16 21:41:24 UTC 2015


On 17/11/2015 7:51 a.m., Tecnologia Charne.Net wrote:
>>> Feel free to read Squid Wiki:
>>> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/DelayPools
>> I think this is a little unfair on the original poster.
>>


Yes, the document the original poster was reading *was* the fine manual :-P


>> The arithmetic in the documentation does appear to be incorrect - look at the 
>> units:
>>
>> [...]
> 
>> Therefore I believe the correct calculations should be:
>>
>> 8 x 32000 bytes per second = 256000 bits per second = 256kilobits per second
>> 8 x 8000 bytes per second = 64000 bits per second = 64 kilobits per second
>> 8 x 600 bytes per second = 4800 bits per second
>>
>> Note the omission of "kilobytes per second" from the first column of numbers.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
> 
> 
> I arrive to the same conclussion and agree that documentation in
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/delay_parameters/ has some mistakes.
> 
> Thanks for your time, Antony!
> 

Mea culpa. Fixing that now.

Amos



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