> Hi,
>
> I need some help with a CARP setup. I want a large cooperative reverse
> proxy for a static content website, minimizing redundant use of RAM. At
> the moment I have two squid servers load-balanced by IVPS.
> Because of the large amount of popular objects the in-memory-hit-ratio
> is about 80%.
> In theory, when using CARP the URI-space is partioned over my two squids
> and thus I should be able to get a larger in-memory-hit-ratio. I expect
> this will improve the performance, because of my slow backends.
>
> I use
> ========
> cache_peer 10.10.0.91 parent 3128 0 carp-load-factor=0.5 proxy-only
> cache_peer 10.10.0.92 parent 3128 0 carp-load-factor=0.5 proxy-only
> =========
> in both squid.conf's. Further I use the following ACLs:
> =============
> acl internal src 10.10.0.0/24
> cache_peer_access 10.10.0.91 allow internal
> cache_peer_access 10.10.0.92 allow internal
> =========
>
> CARP is enabled, according to squid -v
> ==============
> Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE11
> configure options: --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --exec-prefix=/usr
> --sbindir=/usr/sbin --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man
> --sysconfdir=/etc/squid --libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid
> --enable-auth=basic,digest,ntlm --enable-removal-policies=lru,heap
> --enable-digest-auth-helpers=password
> --enable-basic-auth-helpers=PAM,getpwnam,YP,NCSA,SMB,MSNT,multi-domain-NTLM,winbind
> --enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user,unix_group,wbinfo_group,winbind_group
> --enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=SMB,fakeauth,no_check,winbind
> --enable-linux-netfilter --enable-ident-lookups --enable-useragent-log
> --enable-cache-digests --enable-delay-pools --enable-referer-log
> --enable-truncate --enable-arp-acl --with-pthreads --with-large-files
> --enable-htcp --enable-carp --enable-poll
> --disable-follow-x-forwarded-for --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> --disable-snmp --enable-ssl --enable-storeio='ufs,diskd,coss,aufs,null'
> --enable-async-io
> ==================
>
> and squid -k parse indicates no errors.
>
> Looking in the log-files, the requests are handled by one squid, instead
> of two. Tcpdump indicates no
> traffic between both squids.
>
> Not much about CARP can be found on the internet. I used the O'Reilly on
> Squid, but nothing more than stated above is mentioned in that book.
>
> Can somebody clarify CARP for me (documentation, clues, antything :D)?
> Thanks in advance.
>
- When CARP is enabled you should have a link pointing to stats
in 'cachemgr'
- Secondly note that the CARP principle can also be implemented
at the user agen site (proxy pac); for an example see :
http://naragw.sharp.co.jp/sps/sample2.pac.txt
M.
