[squid-users] Delay pool with large negative numbers

[Amos Jeffries]

On 14/10/2015 11:46 a.m., Chico Venancio wrote:
> I have configured delay pools for a client that delays access to a few
> sites, including youtube and facebook.
> It seems to work for some clients, and has significantly reduced link
> congestion. However, some clients seem to be unaffected by the delay pools.
> 
> The output to squidclient mgr:delay is as follows:
> 
> Sending HTTP request ... done.
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: squid/3.4.8
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:43:28 GMT
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Expires: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:43:28 GMT
> Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:43:28 GMT
> X-Cache: MISS from proxy-server
> X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from proxy-server:3128
> Via: 1.1 proxy-server (squid/3.4.8)
> Connection: close
> 
> Delay pools configured: 1
> 
> Pool: 1
>         Class: 2
> 
>         Aggregate:
>                 Max: 20000
>                 Restore: 10000
>                 Current: -108514139
> 
>         Individual:
>                 Max: 12000
>                 Restore: 7000
>                 Current: 87:12000 56:12000 92:12000 123:12000 94:-58135034
> 89:12000 223:12000 55:12000 93:12000
> 
> Memory Used: 1496 bytes
> 
> 
> I have searched for answers and some do mention that sometimes the current
> bytes in the pool shoudl be negative, but a low negative like -1 or -6. To
> me it seems that the delay pools are beeing ignored...


Sounds like it might be a side effect of
<http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522>

Or it could be the fact that delay pools are still 32-bit functionality.

Amos