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

> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> A small amount of URLs account for around 50% or so of the requests.
>
> 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.
>
> I can see that clearing/expiring both caches should result in an equal
> hit rate between the two servers.
>
> Is this the only way of achieving this? I'm concerned now that if I
> was to add a third server "C" into the cache pool it'd have an even
> lower hit rate than on A or B.
>
> I spent some time searching but wasn't able to find "Squid
> administration for dummies" ;)
>

Sounds like one of the expected side effects of sibling 'proxy-only'
setting. If squid were allowed to cache data received from their siblings
in one of these setups, the hits would balance out naturally.

Amos
Received on Fri Oct 17 2008 - 02:45:48 MDT