Hi Henrik, Thanks for your reply. What would be your suggestion for a CARP setup which would provide an efficient caching system? Thanks in advance. -Paras On 10/16/08, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On tor, 2008-10-16 at 09:42 +0530, Paras Fadte wrote: > > Hi Henrik, > > > > In CARP setup, if one uses same weightage for all the parent caches > > how would the requests be handled ? will the requests be equally > > forwarded to all the parent caches ? if the weightages differ then > > won't all the requests be forwarded to a particular parent cache only > > which has the highest weightage ? > > > CARP is a hash algorithm. For each given URL there is one CARP parent > that is the designated one. > > The weights control how large portion of the URL space is assigned to > each member. > > > > Also if I do not use the "proxy-only" option in the squid which > > forwards the requests to parent caches, won't less number of requests > > be forwarded to parent caches since it will be already cached by squid > > in front of the parent caches? > > > Correct. And it's completely orthogonal to the use of CARP. As I said > most setups do not want to use proxy-only. proxy-only is only useful in > some very specific setups. These setups MAY be using CARP or some other > peering method, the choice of peering method is unrelated to proxy-only. > > Regards > > Henrik > >
