Re: [squid-users] Re-distributing the cache between multiple servers

On tor, 2008-10-16 at 14:39 +0100, James Cohen wrote:
> I have two reverse proxy servers using each other as neighbours. The
> proxy servers are load balanced (using a "least connections"
> algorithm) by a Netscaler upstream of them.

Ok.

> A small amount of URLs account for around 50% or so of the requests.

Ok.

> At the moment there's some imbalance in the hit rates on the two
> caches because I brought up server A before server B and it's holding
> the majority of the objects which make that 50% of request traffic.

This should even out very quickly, unless you are using proxy-only in
the peering relation..

If you are using proxy-only then it will take longer time as it then
takes much longer for the active content to get replicated on the
servers.

Regards
Henrik