2008/3/11 Neil Harkins <nharkins@xxxxxxxxx>:
> F5 has some documents on how to implement consisent hashes in bigip
> irules (tcl),
> but i wound up writing a custom one for use in front of our squids
> that only does one
> checksum per request, as opposed to one per squid in the pool, to avoid wasting
> cpu cycles on the LB.
>
> it uses a precomputed table for the nodes, but doesn't need to be recomputed
> when you add/remove a few, they just fit in between the others. i'll
> try to finish
> the writeup and submit it to devcentral soon.
You're also welcome to write about this issue in the squid wiki (be it
a link to devcentral or an article in the wiki itself)
--
/kinkie
