Re: [squid-users] TCP parent, peer_connect_timeout, failover, load balancing depending on load

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On Tuesday 06 January 2004 14:31, Gabriel Wicke wrote:

> * Is there a way to take the load of individual parents (Apaches) into
> account?

I am using icp to share load across a pool of Zope servers. This works well at
avoiding large load imbalances.

http://zope.org/Members/htrd/icp/intro

> I was thinking about something that would delay ICP queries
> depending on the current load, effectively lowering the machine's priority
> in the selection process.

In my configuraton Zope is handling http and icp in the same select loop, and
this alone seems to be sufficient.

-- 
Toby Dickenson