One of the Squid servers in a cluster I manage had an unusually high load, while the rest of the Squid servers with a relatively equal amount of connections were within acceptable load levels. While reviewing the process list, I found that updatedb.mlocat was running during the busiest time of the day. Turns out it […]
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Normalize Accept-Encoding Headers via HAProxy for Squid Cache
I noticed that when browsing one of our heavy traffic website’s under different browsers, I would see completely separate versions of a page depending on which browser I used. We use a cluster of Squid servers to cache the many pages of this particular website, but I believed the only thing that needed to happen […]