Re: alternate parent selection algorithms

From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:07:30 -0700 (MST)

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Niilo Neuvo wrote:

> As a background: I maintain a cache-server farm consisting of 4
> machines at the moment. The overhead of sending ICP-queries back and
> forth is stopping me from expanding the cache with more machines. We
> deliver about 10 million queries a day. This means 7.5M*3 (22.5M) ICP
> queries per day received by a single cache. With 8 machines and
> double queries it would mean 17.5M*8 (140M) ICP queries, meaning about
> 4000 ICP queries per second during peak hours. At some point this
> system will no longer work.

Use Cache Digests to reduce/eliminate ICP queries.

Alex.
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