On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, H Matik wrote:
hmm, for server balance ok but do you think LVS is better then parent weight and some other squid configs for walking through several frontend caches?
It depends a lot on your environment.
LVS is usually simpler than to install and maintain than a smaller Squid infront of a farm of Squids only for loadbalancing. But a Squid can be somewhat smarter as it can make decisions based on requested domain and/or ICP allowing for a higher hit ratio in the cache cluster.
LVS is also significanly less resource hungry than Squid, so even a small LVS server can handle significant amount of load. But you only run into this if you need to build a cache cluster of 4 or more Squid caches. (a non-caching Squid can handle significantly higher loads than caching Squids)
Regards Henrik
