On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:55:45 -0500 (CDT), Adam Maloney <adam at whee.org> wrote: > Dan's message reminded me to ask for real-world implementations of large, > highly-available squid installations...on Linux (just so it's on-topic). I tried to use Squid about a year ago as a reverse proxy. We had a lot of free hosting content and needed to distribute the disk transactions across a number of disks. There was too much content to simply replicate it across machines, so the idea was to use Squid to dynamically replicate the content as it was requested. It worked fine in testing, but under load everything slowed to a crawl. I spent about a week tweaking it and never could get it to work right. Squid tries to do everything and requires a very complex configuration file that isn't well documented. Figuring out how to get it to perform better requires guesswork or reading the source. In the end I gave up and spent a few hours writing an ISAPI filter for Zeus that solved the problem in a much better way than squid ever could. Everything I read indicated that no one was using Squid with that much traffic (50-100mbits per machine or more). Maybe you'll have better luck using it as an outgoing proxy, but someone would have to try very hard to convince me to look at Squid again. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list