Re: [squid-users] load balancing two squid boxes howto?

Gino,

 so how many boxes do i need for the configuration you
stated? 3 or 4 boxes?

is it gonna be like this?

             -------Box2
            |
 box1 ------------Box3
            |
             -------Box4

please elaborate...

thanks

jhay

--- "Gino LV.Ledesma" <gino@cersa.admu.edu.ph> wrote:
> > Nice idea too! Can you please post an example of
> your configuration plz
>
> # Front Proxy
> cache_peer 10.0.1.27 parent 3128 3130 proxy-only
> carp-load-factor=0.25
> cache_peer 10.0.1.28 parent 3128 3130 proxy-only
> carp-load-factor=0.25
> cache_peer 10.0.1.29 parent 3128 3130 proxy-only
> carp-load-factor=0.50
>
> That's pretty much all that's needed. The 3 parent
> proxies are all
> configured as siblings to one another. The load
> distribution was setup
> in a way to handle half of the load to 2 similarly
> configured machines
> with the other half to a slightly faster machine
> with a larger storage
> capacity. I've also added some recommended tweaks
> which I picked up from
> the list, such as using aufs, reiserfs as the file
> system, etc.
>
> The load distribution reported by MRTG seems to
> correspond with how we
> wanted it. The proxies handle roughly 2000
> requests/min on the average
> (I wonder if its possible to increase that, though,
> as we've peaked to
> 3000 once). The cache/hit ratio is pretty good as
> well, around 25% on
> off-peak hours to as high as 80% on peak hours.
>
> --------------------------------------
> Gino LV. Ledesma
> Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT)
> Ateneo de Manila University
> Quezon City, Philippines
>

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Received on Mon Jun 03 2002 - 10:08:52 MDT