Re: [squid-users] Current Performance?

At 07:12 PM 12/05/2001, you wrote:
>Using a TCP proxy has the drawback that the users IP addresses will be
>hidden from the real proxy. All will appear as if coming from the server
>running the TCP proxy.
>
>Another alternative is to use a "TCP loadbalancer / L4 switch", such as
>Linux Virtual Server <http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org>. LVS also have
>the neat feature that the load balancer can be clustered among your farm
>members, eleminating the need of a separate load balancing component...

Wouldnt standard balancing cause the same popular pages to be stored on
all of your caches?

It seems that proxying based on the destination web server address would
cause, say, all of the requests for cnn.com to be in the same cache..and
would be a much more efficient use of resources.

Dennis
Received on Thu Dec 06 2001 - 11:18:27 MST