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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: odd INN behavior
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:01:58 +1000
Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia)
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To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com

Ken Bigelow wrote:
> 
> Tony Griffiths wrote:
> >
> 
> Interesting. I recently added agent and referer logging to my site, and
> found a few entries in agent_log that suggest that Squid is actually
> being used twice or more. A typical entry showing this was:
> 
> Mozilla/3.0Gold (WinNT; I) via Squid Cache version 1.0.20 via Squid
> Cache version 1.0.20 via Squid Cache version 1.0.18
>
It is possible to cascade proxies (parent-child), as well as peer them
(sibling) so the above may not be "too" unusual!  We peer our proxy with
our backbone's proxy.

> If something is caching documents two or three times, it won't take long
> to run out of memory!

Each of the proxy's should be a separate machine so VM utilisation is
spread around.

> --
> Ken
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Tony