[squid-users] Recommended multi-worker setup?

Amos Jeffries squid3 at treenet.co.nz
Wed Jun 10 00:57:25 UTC 2015


On 10/06/2015 12:35 p.m., TarotApprentice wrote:
> In the examples on the squid site it gives a multi-worker example using carp (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/SmpCarpCluster). Now that rock storage has been updated with 3.5.5 is that still the best approach?
> 
> I was thinking of a single rock cache so the workers could share it rather than the example which has a shared rock cache plus each worker having its own aufs cache. I need to cache windows updates which can get fairly big and would rather not duplicate them between workers.
> 

It is still far better to use UFS caches for large objects.

Amos



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