Re: hierarchy problems

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 20:14:53 +0100

Gergely Madarasz wrote:

> Thanks, this seems to be useful. Now I still have some problems though...
> The ICP to the parents sometimes goes down, I don't know why. The network
> connection is ok. And if the ICP is ok, my cache only accesses the first
> parent listed in the config file. Now i've put no-query roundrobin to the
> parent options, this way the traffic is really divided, but when one of
> the parents fail (unreachable, etc), it goes to direct. Can't this be
> somehow made to go to the other parent first?

No, not without changing the code. Squid only selects one peer per
request by default.

It should however start using the next peer as soon as Squid has
declared the first one dead (may take a few requests, there is a
threshold of 10 failures in a row before a peer is declared as dead)

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Received on Wed Jan 05 2000 - 15:55:48 MST

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