Re: [squid-users] parent question

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Hendrik Voigtländer wrote:
>
>> Ah. So if I use exactly the same build with same time out value on all
>> squid this would explain this behaviour? Should I perhaps reduce
>> timeout values on the parents?
>
> You could try.
>
I'll give it a shot.

>> 2 child caches serving users, client distribution bases on network
>> segments via proxy.pac including failover if one child goes down.
>> The childs do not know each other.
>
>
> Ok. In such case a sibling relation between the childs would help hit
> ratio.
>
Is it advisable to use icp/cache digest for the siblings?

> An alternative is to change proxy.pac to distribute based on the
> destination host rather than the network segment. Drawback is if you use
> authentication... (users may be asked twice for their login, once per
> child cache..)

Good idea - I have no cache authentication, just a content filter to
keep the filth out of the cache...

Thanks a lot, Hendrik.
Received on Wed Oct 19 2005 - 06:24:12 MDT