In message <[email protected]>, Micha el Fischer writes:
>For instance sizes larger than 2, I think a consistent hash is needed. > Otherwise, the overall hit ratio will fall dramatically upon failure of an >instance as the requests are rerouted. If you have perfect 1/3 splitting between 3 varnishes, having one die will do bad things to your hitrate until the remaining two distribute the load between them. That's a matter of math, and has nothing to do with the hash algorithm. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
