[squid-users] FIFO/multiple requests for uncached object question

Hello, I have a reverse proxy setup with Squid on some Linux servers
and was wondering how squid handles multiple incoming requests for an
uncached page? I have some heavy traffic sites that are using
mod_expires for certain pages like the home page. If I have a page
that gets called that has not been called before or is expired or
stale Squid contacts my Apache server and pulls the page up but what
happens if multiple calls come in at relatively the same time. Does
Squid notice it is currently requesting that object and put the other
calls on hold or does each one get passed on thru to the web server as
misses and requests a fresh copy from Apache?

Thanks,
Nick Baronian
Received on Tue May 23 2006 - 14:32:58 MDT