Another good use for cache clustering is when you need squid to scale beyond a single core* on your proxy server; you can run multiple squid instances on a single box and cluster them to avoid duplicate storage.
-C *Yes, I know I/O is threaded, but the main event loop is not... On May 1, 2010, at 2:19 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote: > SQL Camel wrote: >> Hello, >> When running with reverse proxy mode, when should we consider to use cache >> cluster rather than all separate cache boxes? >> From what I know, no matter with parents or with siblings every cache has >> all the objects of others, so is cache cluster really meaningful? > > When the origin server is too slow or too far away or needs to do too much > work to generate and/or check objects. > > Also when you don't want each proxy to maintain its own duplicate cache use a > peer clustering protocol that prevents duplicates. They are listed in the > cache_peer documentation. > > Amos > -- > Please be using > Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.1
