Re: [squid-users] High Availability Squid

From: Kinkie <kinkie-squid@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:23:31 +0200

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 11:47 -0300, Pablo García wrote:
> Hi, I'm working on set up a reverse proxy farm, running multiple
> copies of squid per machine (to take advantage of the smp dual-core
> servers), Now, reading the best performance practics, I understand
> that instead of using RAID I should use a JBOD setup. using several
> cache_dir statements in the squid.conf file. My question is, if one of
> these disk should fail, what will happen with the squid process ?
> Also any recomendations on high availability squid are very welcome.

It will crash and burn.
Multiple-hosts redundancy (with an external load balancer or an HA
solution such as keepalived) will be needed to avoid this to cause
downtime.

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Kinkie <kinkie-squid@kinkie.it>
Received on Thu Aug 24 2006 - 15:21:58 MDT

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