> -----Original Message----- > From: Bunpot Thanaboonsombut [mailto:bunpotth@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:04 PM > To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Squid + LVS-NAT (Red Hat Piranha) on VMware GSX > > > Hi all, > I plan to use two LVS servers on the VMware Virtual Machine to provide > high-availabilty service for two squid servers on the same machine. I > mean, Squid is running on physical machine along with LVS-NAT (Red Hat > Cluster Suite) on VM. > > Can anyone share the experience or recommendations for my > configuration? Is there a technical issues with this config? > > Best Regards, > Bunpot T. > So you are running two squid instances on one box (supposedly to take advantage of multiple CPUs), and a redundant LVS director (on VMWare) on a separate machine? Or is everything running on one physical machine? It's only under certain circumstances that Squid uses a lot of processing power (high latency links seem to be on such circumstance), but it nearly always uses lots of I/O. Having multiple processes competing for the same disk(s) might lower performance more than just running one Squid instance on the box. I have no idea how LVS is going to play with VMWare. Very interesting concept though. Chris
