> Hi, > > I have two reverse proxy servers using each other as neighbours. The > proxy servers are load balanced (using a "least connections" > algorithm) by a Netscaler upstream of them. > > A small amount of URLs account for around 50% or so of the requests. > > At the moment there's some imbalance in the hit rates on the two > caches because I brought up server A before server B and it's holding > the majority of the objects which make that 50% of request traffic. > > I can see that clearing/expiring both caches should result in an equal > hit rate between the two servers. > > Is this the only way of achieving this? I'm concerned now that if I > was to add a third server "C" into the cache pool it'd have an even > lower hit rate than on A or B. > > I spent some time searching but wasn't able to find "Squid > administration for dummies" ;) > Sounds like one of the expected side effects of sibling 'proxy-only' setting. If squid were allowed to cache data received from their siblings in one of these setups, the hits would balance out naturally. Amos
