Re: Use digests between 3 siblings on a fast network?

Robert Franklin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have 3 caches which each have two 100FDX interfaces... one side
> connects them to the campus network (for client requests and connections
> to our parent caches and origin servers) and the other is a private
> fully-switched segment purely for inter-cache traffic.
>
> Is it worth using cache digests *between* our caches [they have a sibling
> relationship with each other]? (We do already with the parents.)
>
> We're using 2.2stable4 (on Solaris 2.6). Our servers are not [currently;
> this may change after term restarts] heavily loaded.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Bob
>
> --
> Bob Franklin <r.c.franklin@reading.ac.uk> Tel. +44 (0)118 931 8432
> Systems and Communications, IT Services, The University of Reading, UK

IMO, yes. If for no other reason than every interrupt saved means less
workload. ICP takes time and resources...The idea with ICP is that it's
cheaper to use it than to not peer. Digests are cheaper than ICP.
Especially on system resources.

D
Received on Sun Aug 22 1999 - 00:50:16 MDT