Re: [squid-users] Squid architecture

Do you have any recommendation on squid architecture that will improve the
cache hits? I have across this old article on load balance requests based
on domain, pretty interesting...
http://hermes.wwwcache.ja.net/events/workshop/15/index.htm

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Friday 05 July 2002 09.32, Wei Keong wrote:
> > I am looking into ways to improve the squid deployment. Currently,
> > I pair (cache_peer sibling, using cache digest) 3 squid boxes into
> > a cluster. Using this architecture, on average, the byte hits is
> > about 30%.
> >
> > However, I notice that the byte CD_SIBLING_HIT of each box is less
> > than 8% of the MISS. In other words, the byte hit from siblings is
> > less than 5.6% of the total byte request.
>
> Quite in the expected range.. the caches will over time grow almost
> identical in a configuration like this.
>
> > Is this kind of byte hits from siblings normal? Has anyone tried to
> > use L7 load balancer to load balance squid boxes? Will there be any
> > drawbacks in using L7 load balancing?
>
> Having a load balancer infront of a cluster of caches is mostly
> benefits. A L7 balancer is probably a bit overkill however..
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
Received on Fri Jul 05 2002 - 05:10:58 MDT