> Hi Guys, > > Wanted to double check I hadn't screwed up my config lines before > dropping a bug report.... Good choice. :-) round-robin == round-robin: each server trued in sequence until all have bee tried then repeats. No weighting there. IIRC Squid3.0 introduces weighted-round-robin for this purpose. Otherwise there is CARP in 2.6. Amos > > I've got some of my parent's configured with weight's, as we're trying > out some performance optimizing code on perlbal... thing is, setting a > weight in squid doesn't seem to make a difference to the number of > requests that squid sends back to the parent. This is Squid-2.6STABLE17. > > [root@cache1 ~]# grep perlbal1-80 /squidperlbal | wc -l > 2 > [root@cache1 ~]# grep perlbal2-80 /squidperlbal | wc -l > 248 > [root@cache1 ~]# grep -v perlbal[12]-80 /squidperlbal | wc -l > 750 > > --I expected at least the inverse of the above, as unless my > understanding of squid weighting is completely incorrect, a weight of > 100 should mean that peer is being used for 100 times more connections > than the weight=1 (default weight) peers, no? > > Squid is configured with the following: > > ###ws.audioscrobbler.com & mainsite > cache_peer 10.0.0.14 parent 80 0 no-query originserver no-digest > no-netdb-exchange name=saruman2-80 round-robin > cache_peer_access saruman2-80 allow mainsite > > cache_peer 10.0.0.14 parent 80 0 no-query originserver no-digest > no-netdb-exchange name=saruman2-81 round-robin > cache_peer_access saruman2-81 allow mainsite > > cache_peer 10.0.0.35 parent 80 0 no-query originserver no-digest > no-netdb-exchange name=perlbal1-80 round-robin weight=100 > cache_peer_access perlbal1-80 allow mainsite > > cache_peer 10.0.0.35 parent 81 0 no-query originserver no-digest > no-netdb-exchange name=perlbal1-81 round-robin > cache_peer_access perlbal1-81 allow mainsite > > cache_peer 10.0.0.114 parent 80 0 no-query originserver no-digest > no-netdb-exchange name=perlbal2-80 round-robin weight=100 > cache_peer_access perlbal2-80 allow mainsite > > cache_peer 10.0.0.114 parent 81 0 no-query originserver no-digest > no-netdb-exchange name=perlbal2-81 round-robin > cache_peer_access perlbal2-81 allow mainsite > > cache_peer 10.0.0.114 parent 82 0 no-query originserver no-digest > no-netdb-exchange name=perlbal2-82 round-robin > cache_peer_access perlbal2-82 allow mainsite > > cache_peer 10.0.0.114 parent 83 0 no-query originserver no-digest > no-netdb-exchange name=perlbal2-83 round-robin > cache_peer_access perlbal2-83 allow mainsite > ###ws.audioscrobbler.com & mainsite Ends > > I also tried removing round-robin, in case that was screwing up the > config, however, i found that this merely means all requests go to > saruman2-80. > > Thanks! > -- > Tony Dodd, Systems Administrator > > Last.fm | http://www.last.fm > Karen House 1-11 Baches Street > London N1 6DL > > check out my music taste at: > http://www.last.fm/user/hawkeviper >
