Re: [squid-users] CARP setup

Hi Henrik,

Thanks for your reply. What would be your suggestion for a CARP setup
which would provide an efficient caching system?

Thanks in advance.

-Paras

On 10/16/08, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> On tor, 2008-10-16 at 09:42 +0530, Paras Fadte wrote:
> > Hi Henrik,
> >
> > In CARP setup, if one uses same weightage for all the parent caches
> > how would the requests be handled ? will the requests be equally
> > forwarded to all the parent caches ? if the weightages differ then
> > won't all the requests be forwarded to a particular parent cache only
> > which has the highest weightage ?
>
>
> CARP is a hash algorithm. For each given URL there is one CARP parent
> that is the designated one.
>
> The weights control how large portion of the URL space is assigned to
> each member.
>
>
> > Also if I do not use the "proxy-only" option in the squid which
> > forwards the requests to parent caches, won't less number of requests
> > be forwarded to parent caches since it will be already cached by squid
> > in front of the parent caches?
>
>
> Correct. And it's completely orthogonal to the use of CARP. As I said
> most setups do not want to use proxy-only. proxy-only is only useful in
> some very specific setups. These setups MAY be using CARP or some other
> peering method, the choice of peering method is unrelated to proxy-only.
>
> Regards
>
> Henrik
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 21 2008 - 15:48:19 MDT