[squid-users] Delay pools not working with squid 4.x , and more Question !!

[Alex Rousskov]

On 9/22/19 10:28 AM, --Ahmad-- wrote:

> Looking forward to hearing that bug fixed .

Me too! However, please do not misinterpret my response as a
confirmation of the bug existence or an implication that somebody is
working on a fix. I do not know whether anybody is working on this. I do
not even recall if somebody has filed a corresponding bug report.

https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/AboutSquid#How_to_add_a_new_Squid_feature.2C_enhance.2C_of_fix_something.3F

Alex.


>> On Sep 22, 2019, at 5:07 PM, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>>
>> On 9/22/19 6:25 AM, --Ahmad-- wrote:
>>
>>> i tested squid 4.8 and delay pools not working with it at all .
>>> i reverted back to squid 3.5.x and i had delay pools working .
>>
>>> Q1- do squid 4 support delay pools ?
>>
>> It should. If it does not, there is a bug somewhere.
>>
>>
>>> Q2- with squid 3.5.x we have SMP about 4 childs , and we are running delay pools .
>>> does that mean speed ( with all 4 instances ) is 1/1 Mbps
>>> or speed ( with all 4 instances ) is 4/4  Mbps?
>>
>> According to [1], delay pools are not SMP-aware yet so you are
>> essentially configuring individual worker limits: Workers do not share
>> their limits and pools with each other. Hence, the effective Squid
>> instance limit is, very approximately, the aggregate of those configured
>> individual worker limits. For example, if each worker is limited by
>> 1Mbps, then the 4-worker instance may produce up to 4Mbps traffic.
>>
>> In reality, since individual workers usually receive different amounts
>> of traffic (especially until [2] is unblocked), the effective instance
>> limit will be more than 1Mbps and less than 4Mbps.
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SmpScale#What_can_workers_share.3F
>>
>> [2] https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/369
>>
>> Alex.