On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:32 PM, DHF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is called CARP/"Cache Array Routing Protocol" in squid land. > Here's a link to some info on it: > > http://docs.huihoo.com/gnu_linux/squid/html/x2398.html > > It works quite well for reducing the number of globally duplicated > objects in an multilayer accelerator setup, as you can add additional > machines in the interstitial space between the frontline caches and the > origin as a cheap and easy way to increase the overall ram available to > hot objects without having to use some front end load balancer like > perlbal, big ip or whatever to direct the individual clients to specific > frontlines to accomplish the same thing ( though you usually still have > a load balancer for fault tolerance ). Though in squid there are some > bugs with their implementation ...
Thanks for the reminder. I'll file RFEs for both the static and CARP implementations. I presume the static configuration will be done first (if at all), as it's probably significantly easier to implement. --Michael _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
