Re: [squid-users] load balancing

2008-12-24 Thread john Moylan
If you want to a load balancer for Squid servers then LVS is a good option. Redhat even have a packaged version. J 2008/12/23 Ken Peng : > > > >> Hi All, >> >> any links on how to configure load balancing of squid >> >> > > See the default squid.conf, :) >

Re: [squid-users] upload

2008-12-24 Thread john Moylan
In my experience. Uploads through a reverse proxy will add some latency. May make the uploads unusable. It may be advisable to upload directly to the origin server instead. J 2008/12/24 ░▒▓ ɹɐzǝupɐɥʞ ɐzɹıɯ ▓▒░ : > is upload can be limit from squid ? >

Re: [squid-users] performance datas for Squid

2008-12-07 Thread john Moylan
>For this 15-25MB/s, do you mean bits or bytes? Thanks bits >Thanks John. for small files, why don't use GDSF on both locations? I can't remember exactly - I'll probably compare them both again soon. J 2008/12/7 Ken DBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > -

Re: [squid-users] performance datas for Squid

2008-12-06 Thread john Moylan
I should add.. hit ratios are 90 or request but only 20-30% of volume with my current solution. My requirement is to reduce load on the backend. J 2008/12/6 john Moylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a number of squid boxes behind LVS acting as reverse proxies. > > They are all HP

Re: [squid-users] performance datas for Squid

2008-12-06 Thread john Moylan
I have a number of squid boxes behind LVS acting as reverse proxies. They are all HP DL380/385's G4 Machines (about 3 years old) with 7GB to 12 GB per machine, 4 unraided 15K SCSI HDD for caches on each machine. Mem Caches are 30% of the available ram on each box and each disk has a 10GB cache. I

Re: [squid-users] large memory squid

2008-11-13 Thread john Moylan
Should I still leave 30% of my RAM for the OS's cache etc? J 2008/11/13 Amos Jeffries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > john Moylan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am about to take ownership of a new 2CPU, 4 core server with 32GB of >> RAM - I intend to add the server t

[squid-users] large memory squid

2008-11-12 Thread john Moylan
Hi, I am about to take ownership of a new 2CPU, 4 core server with 32GB of RAM - I intend to add the server to my squid reverse proxy farm. My site is approximately 300GB including archives and I think 32GB of memory alone will suffice as cache for small, hot objects without necessitating any addi

Re: [squid-users] File cache & squid

2007-12-13 Thread John Moylan
The OS file cache is Very important for most IO operations for most applications - including Squid. On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 17:49 +, Paul Cocker wrote: > Is the OS file cache of any importance to squid? And by that I mean > quite simply, HOW important is the OS file cache to squid? > > Paul Co

Re: [squid-users] Handling GeoIP specific content

2007-12-03 Thread John Moylan
Some sites use dynamic DNS based on lookups to something like Maxmind or Quova. J On Dec 3, 2007 6:02 PM, Sascha Linn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I'm sure someone has to have dealt with this... but I cal only find > one hit in the a

Re: [squid-users] High CPU usage when cache full

2007-11-27 Thread John Moylan
Cache Items 0 on-disk objects J On Nov 26, 2007 2:55 PM, Tek Bahadur Limbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John, > > John Moylan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have three memory only caches set up 7GB of memory each (the > > machines have 12GB of phys

[squid-users] High CPU usage when cache full

2007-11-26 Thread John Moylan
Hi, I have three memory only caches set up 7GB of memory each (the machines have 12GB of physical memory each). Throughput is fairly high and this setup works well in reducing the number of requests for smaller files from my backend storage with lower latency that a disk and mem. solution. However

Re: [squid-users] Re: saving all web traffic

2007-11-15 Thread John Moylan
This might suit your requirements better http://gertjan.freezope.org/replicator/ Haven't tried it. Presume it's not as efficient as Squid as a cache. On Nov 15, 2007 4:33 PM, bryan rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to run Squid as my proxy and get everything that passes thr

Re: [squid-users] Squid Performance (with Polygraph)

2007-11-14 Thread John Moylan
ash by a lot - as I understand it > the problems in diskd are crashes under high load, not that it slows it down > right? > > Thanks for the help > Dave > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Moylan > Sent: Wed

Re: [squid-users] Squid cluster - flat or hierarchical

2007-11-06 Thread John Moylan
ey are all siblings of each other? Is it OK to ignore the forwarding loop warnings in cache.log? J On Nov 6, 2007 7:29 AM, Amos Jeffries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Moylan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have 4 Squid 2.6 reverse proxy servers sitting behind

[squid-users] Squid cluster - flat or hierarchical

2007-11-05 Thread John Moylan
Hi, I have 4 Squid 2.6 reverse proxy servers sitting behind an LVS loadbalancer with 1 public IP address. In order to improve the hit rate all 4 servers are all peering with eachother using ICP. squid1 -> sibling squid{2,3,4} squid2 -> sibling squid{1,3,4} squid3 -> sibling squid{1,2,4} squid4 -

Re: [squid-users] maximum size of cache_mem

2007-09-20 Thread John Moylan
Hi, That's only referring to the amount of memory currently consumed by the memory cache. You should be able to see the figure growing as the memory cache fills up. J On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 07:50 -0700, zulkarnain wrote: > --- Gonzalo Arana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Have a look

Re: [squid-users] maximum size of cache_mem

2007-09-20 Thread John Moylan
memory to ensure max usage and help you to avoid swapping. J On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 07:44 -0700, zulkarnain wrote: > --- John Moylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SNMP is good > > > > http://www.squid-cache.org/~wessels/squid-rrd/ > > > > Thanks John! But snmp

Re: [squid-users] maximum size of cache_mem

2007-09-20 Thread John Moylan
SNMP is good http://www.squid-cache.org/~wessels/squid-rrd/ On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 05:08 -0700, zulkarnain wrote: > Hi all, > > I've squid running with 4GB of cache_mem, seemed my > squid unable to use 4GB of cache_mem. I would like to > know is there any tools to analyze cache_mem > utilization

Re: [squid-users] squid pre-pending blank line

2007-09-18 Thread John Moylan
Hi, Please disregard, the issue is being caused by an web server module. J On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:57 +0100, John Moylan wrote: > Hi, > > Pages served via our reverse proxy squid seem to have a blank line > pre-pended to them. Is this normal? We are trying to validate mobile >

[squid-users] squid pre-pending blank line

2007-09-18 Thread John Moylan
Hi, Pages served via our reverse proxy squid seem to have a blank line pre-pended to them. Is this normal? We are trying to validate mobile XHTML and this is causing us issues. Version 2.6.STABLE6 on Centos Thanks, J On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:23 -0700, Nadeem Semaan wrote: > I have noticed th

[squid-users] HA Squid forward proxy in parent-parent relationship

2006-11-17 Thread John Moylan
Hi, I have two Squid boxes behind an LVS (Linux Virtual Server) server. The two boxes are forward proxies for two Apache webservers on the same private network. | V WEB | V -- |LVS | -- / \ /\ SQUID1 SQUID2 |