[squid-users] [Feature Request] Dynamic bandwidth sharing with priorities in delay pools

[Yoan Manuel García Lleó]

Hi Amos,

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. Now I understand the
difference between delay pools and true QoS, and the role Squid can play as
a classifier.

I will look into implementing clientside_mark/tos with tc (HFSC) on Debian
to replace my current delay pools. The mapping of delay_class numbers to
TOS/DSCP values is very helpful.

I appreciate your time and guidance.

Best regards,
Yoan Manuel García Lleó

El mar, 11 de ago de 2026, 4:45 a. m., Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz>
escribió:

> On 05/08/2026 01:23, Yoan Manuel García Lleó wrote:
> > Hello Squid team,
> >
> > First of all, thank you for maintaining such a robust and reliable proxy
> > server. We have been using Squid in production for years in a small
> > network with limited bandwidth (4 Mbps, about 15 users).
> >
> > Current situation:
> > We use delay pools to share bandwidth fairly among users. The "class 1"
> > pool does a decent job of dynamic sharing, but it lacks true QoS
> > features like:
>
> Yes. That is because "delay" is not the same as QoS. It is an older and
> simpler concept from the days of Dial-up Internet, an early precursor to
> what we now call QoS. Traffic is literally just throttled (delayed)
> based on its service ranking (aka "class").
>
>
> Squid has other configuration settings to integrate with true QoS
> systems. In those, Squid acts as a classifier service marking the HTTP
> traffic for the network QoS policy to act on.
>
> Squid provides several classifiers for modern QoS:
>
>   1) For simple "server type" classification Squid has qos_flows
> directive. Just classifying response packets to the client based on
> upstream cache_peer or server connection type.
>
>   2) For more complex classification with (fast type) ACL selection of
> what to classify each message there are:
>   a) request to server/peer classifiers tos_outgoing_mark,
> tos_outgoing_tos, and
>   b) reply to client classifiers clientside_mark, and clientside_tos.
>
>
> FYI, One can switch existing delay pools to true QoS by:
>   * implementing the delay_parameters in your network QoS policy, and
>   * replacing delay_access with clientside_mark/tos ACL rules.
> The delay_class number is equivalent to TOS/MARK value in your QoS system.
> That should see modern QoS doing what delay pools currently does for
> you. After that you can adjust the networks QoS policy and Squid ACL
> rules as needed for anything else you want to happen.
>
> HTH
> Amos
>
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