Nevermind this... Don't ask :( On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:45 PM, david robertson <dr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, I'm having a bit of an issue with CARP, specifically balancing the load. > > I have 3 frontend servers that cache only to memory, and 2 backend > servers that cache only to disk (one aufs device, and one coss device > on each). The two backend servers are running on identical hardware, > and running an identical version of Squid (2.7.STABLE9). There's > nothing funky about the configs of either the backends, nor the > frontends. > > The issue is that one backend server is always receiving exactly twice > the amount of traffic from the 3 frontend servers at all times. > > Frontend cache_peer lines: > cache_peer 192.168.193.78 parent 4001 0 carp login=PASS name=backend no-digest > cache_peer 192.168.193.116 parent 4001 0 carp login=PASS name=backend2 no-digest > > No matter what I try, the second server in the list (.116) gets twice > the traffic that .78 gets. > > Output of the cluster stats, gathered from squidclient: > > hostname hits/sec cacherate > ================================================= > squid 47 43% > squid2 39 34% > squid4 39 33% > ------------------------------------------------- > 125 36% > > squid3 42 25% > squid5 85 27% > > (Yes, I know 125 hits/sec is low, but it's a low-traffic hour, and we > frequently get large bursts of traffic) > > > Any help would be much appreciated. >