Re: [squid-users] cluster solution

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:31:37 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, H Matik wrote:

> hmm, for server balance ok but do you think LVS is better then parent weight
> and some other squid configs for walking through several frontend caches?

It depends a lot on your environment.

LVS is usually simpler than to install and maintain than a smaller Squid
infront of a farm of Squids only for loadbalancing. But a Squid can be
somewhat smarter as it can make decisions based on requested domain and/or
ICP allowing for a higher hit ratio in the cache cluster.

LVS is also significanly less resource hungry than Squid, so even a small
LVS server can handle significant amount of load. But you only run into
this if you need to build a cache cluster of 4 or more Squid caches. (a
non-caching Squid can handle significantly higher loads than caching
Squids)

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Feb 08 2005 - 16:31:38 MST

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