Re: [squid-users] TIMEOUT_ROUNDROBIN_PARENT and poor SIBLING_HIT performance

On 25/02/11 08:35, M. Leong Lists wrote:
> The LB does periodic health checks of the backend and marks out any
> backend not responding in time. Would you recommend using squid to
> connect directly to the backend and use the monitorurl parameter
> instead? The origin servers are on the same subnet as the squid cluster.
>

If the LB does that itself you can drop the multiple entries in
squid.conf pointing at it.

Since they can both do things, have a play and see which is faster squid
LB with round-robin and/or the monitor or the device LB with equivalents.

>
> I turned of connection persistence so squid and clients re-connect
> faster if a backend died. From past experience, if persistence was
> enabled, it would take a lot longer for the connections to break and go
> to another server. Is there a config where I can set how long to
> timeout? (read_timeout parameter?)

pconn_timeout is what you are looking for to make them short.

Amos

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