{"id":781,"date":"2008-08-02T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atumvirtwordpress.azurewebsites.net\/?p=781"},"modified":"2008-08-02T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T03:03:00","slug":"enter-the-kraken-squid-cache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/2008\/08\/enter-the-kraken-squid-cache\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter the Kraken (Squid Cache!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Squid cache is living in the past.  With support for only a single core and support for SMP only loosely on the horizon, we were looking for ways to improve the performance of our Squid proxy \/ filtering server which we use for filtering.  To overcome the limitation, users can set up multiple instances of Squid, however on a single machine this isn&#8217;t supported with the plugin that we need to use.  As a result, we&#8217;d have to resort to using multiple servers.  Still, this seemed like a waste of resources to dedicate many powerful boxes to the task.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the free release of VMWare ESXi this past Monday, we decided to load ESXi and create 4 seperate VM&#8217;s for Squid.  This will allow us to have 4 seperate instances with a functional filtering plugin.  Additionally, we will use the old server (which has quite a bit of umph in it left) as well as the old reporting server (whose function will now be handled by a VM on our other ESXi box we purchased in the months previous) will also become Squid caches.  We had all sorts of witty comments about a school of squid and the like, but we settled on the name &#8220;kraken&#8221; for the DNS round robin result.  It will also give us the ability to take the server down for any necessary maintenance.  As a result, I left on a high note, a smile on my face, compiling a newer Linux kernel with VMI support enabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Squid cache is living in the past. With support for only a single core and support for SMP only loosely on the horizon, we were looking for ways to improve the performance of our Squid proxy \/ filtering server which we use for filtering. To overcome the limitation, users can set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,54,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}