Re: [squid-users] cache_peer weighting

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> No, its just the most modern and one thats shown some promise in recent
> benchmarking earlier this year by a large-scale user. Thier exact results
> are buried back in the mailing list somewhere.
> There are other algorithms, with different properties that suite differing
> siutaions.
>

I'll take a look at CARP, thanks =]

>> The config manual seems to suggest otherwise:
>>
>> "cache_peer 172.16.1.123 sibling 3129 5500 weight=2"
>>
>> Or am I assuming too much here? I could be getting the wrong end of the
>> stick; but it seemed like using a similar cache_peer entries to the
>> above, but with a couple having the weight=100 didn't seem to change the
>> way squid was choosing the cache_peer to use.
>
> I'm not sure which config manual you got that from. The Official
> Authoritative one does not include that text.
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/cfgman/cache_peer.html
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/cfgman/cache_peer.html

ViSolve.. heh

Thanks again Amos!

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