On Friday 18 November 2005 14:31, Stefano Mason wrote: > I'm thinking to load balancing 2 squid processes with 1 squid. Is this > idea stupid? > > Landscape: > > 1 SMP machine with: > squid1 with cache_dir (a real piece of disk) bind localhost > squid2 with cache_dir (a real piece of disk) bind localhost > > squidv with cache_dir null > cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 3128 3130 no-query proxy-only round-robin > cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 4128 4130 no-query proxy-only round-robin > never_direct allow all > > Can someone supply me any comments? Although this would technically work I don't see any gain here - just more overhead. IMHO two Squids on the same server won't make things go faster than a single Squid. If your proxies are not fast enough (CPU, network bandwidth, etc.) then consider setting up Squids on different servers and put a decent hardware load balancer in front of it. We use a Foundry load balancer and four Squid nodes here. Btw, you can use multiple cache directories (cache_dir) in case you want to use different hard disks to speed up the disk cache. Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 2 lines --100%-- 2,41 All
