RE: [squid-users] Current Performance?

Hi,

Have you looked at "balance". Here's an excerpt from its man page:

       Balance is a simple, generic "userland" TCP proxy, which
       allows simple round robin load balancing and failover
       between serveral destinations.

       Balance is available at http://balance.sourceforge.net.

If you put balance on a box that did nothing else and configured the
browsers to use it as their proxy and it handed off to several squids you
might get a cheap effective solution. Of course it requires the "balancer"
to have the throughput required to service multiple squids. If it's doing
nothing else I'd suspect this to not be a problem.

Colin

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Dennis wrote:

> At 11:31 AM 12/05/2001, you wrote:
> >So it would be correct to say that this limitation could be overcome by
> >multiple squid boxes and a load balancer? I understand that that's a
> >workaround, but if an organization can afford to have 10Mbit or greater
> >bandwidth, they can afford an extra $2-3k box and a layer 3/4 switch/load
> >balancer.
> >
> >-Aaron
>
> You dont really need to load balance...you just need to send different
> traffic to different caches....whether by source address or dest address or
> whatever. Ideally you'd want to avoid duplication if possible, so dest
> address would be better I think.
>
> The setup you suggest may exceed the cost of simply buying a higher
> performing product.
Received on Wed Dec 05 2001 - 16:04:21 MST