[squid-users] cache peer proxy-only - is there a middle ground?

Hi all,

I'm facing an issue where we'd like to implement cache peering on our
squid farms, primarily to leverage the combined disk capacity across
all our boxes into a larger cache. I would presume that this requires
the use of the proxy-only directive to avoid content duplication.
However, this has raised the issue of server overload - there's a very
real possibility that a single hot object, if it only lives on a
single server, could overload that server with requests from all the
other peers in the event of a flash crowd. I'd like to find some
middle ground.

I'm wondering if there's a way to configure squid such that content
retrieved from peers is cached locally, but for a much shorter period
of time than content the cache retrieves directly. Is this possible
within squid, or should this be a feature request?

-C
Received on Mon Feb 04 2008 - 12:42:54 MST