Re: [squid-users] Squid usage

Chemolli Francesco (USI) wrote:

>>Intuitively it seems that you could make use of a
>>multiprocessor box by creative use of a cache hierarchy ? I'm
>>thinking maybe 3 copies of Squid; one running on the standard
>>port to dispatch requests, designating the other 2 as
>>proxy-only parents in a round-robin scheme. Unless there was
>>some nasty software bottleneck in the "dispatcher" squid,
>>this should be able to balance load across two CPUs.
>>
>
> Yes. This is wildly inefficient though, both CPU and memory-wise.
> A better approach would be to have a LVS splitting the load
> to two cache-digest-coordinated squids.

Even better to use the DH or LBLC scheduler and have no coordination
between the two caches at all.

These schedulers will divide traffic such that there is no redundant
data across multiple caches.

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                      Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
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Received on Tue May 15 2001 - 04:48:47 MDT