[squid-users] load balancing

the main drawback of load balancing between peers is that squid never tries
to determine how much of bandwitch left on other parents, just query first
one. IMO besides connect-timeout there should be use-band
option, allowing squid to not use certain parent if there are connections
pending to it using x of bandwitch.
this would introduce true load balancing, as number of connections isn't good
measure.

in addition parent cache can occassionally return it's bandwidth report , and
databases could hold ping reply times and troughput to sites (servers) as
'cost' .



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