Re: [squid-users] ncsa not distributing load evenly

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 15:12 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> fre 2007-02-23 klockan 03:17 +0000 skrev Paresh Gupta:
>
> > 95% of the times just first process is overloaded. Why
> > is this program
> > not distributing the load equally among all.
>
> Squid sends the query to the first idle auth helper. Most often this is
> the first as ncsa_auth is very quick in answering the request..

> This does not mean that the first helper gets overloaded, just that it
> gets most of the load

I'll ad to Henrik's comment that this is actually intentional and will
improve the overall performance by keeping that one most used
authenticator process hot in the OS caches.

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Kinkie <kinkie-squid@kinkie.it>