Re: [squid-users] clustering squid

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007, Mar Matthias Darin wrote:

> >I am looking to utilize squid as a reverse proxy for a medium sized
> >implementation that will need to scale to a lot of requests/sec (a lot
> >is a relative/unknown term). I found this very informative thread:
> >http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200704/0089.html
>
> I have written some software that will make managing the log files a bit
> easier. You can consolidate the logs to a signle system (and file if you
> wish)(via TCP connections) and the logs are rotated automatically each
> night (without effecting Squid). Also it handles log data above 2gigs
> easily. The software is GPL licensed. The url is in my signature.

hm, you could easily write a logfile helper process or plugin to pipe those
logfiles over a TCP or UDP socket without even touching the disk.
That'll be in Squid-2.7 and Squid-3.1 when they're released.

Adrian

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