[AusNOG] squid peering mesh

[Adrian Chadd]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011, Julien Goodwin wrote:

> We run squid clusters of up to a few hundred megabits, and have mostly
> stopped even bothering to peer with boxes in the same cluster (same
> rack, same switch, etc). The latency hit just isn't worth it these days
> given how little is cachable.

Which is weird, because the caches I setup and maintain still save 20-30%
of HTTP bandwidth without too much hackery. One goes above 30% with some
hackery.


Adrian

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