[ale] Does anybody have experience with aload-balancing/failover distro?

[Jim Kinney]

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

>   They need the money to buy heavy duty test score erasers.  :-)
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Jim
> Kinney
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:41 PM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Does anybody have experience with
> aload-balancing/failover distro?
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> I get 12M at home. I can't figure out why a school can't come up with
> $100/mo and a cable line.
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> Oh. school. $$
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> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:08 PM, david w. millians <millia at panix.com>
> wrote:
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> On 9/29/2010 3:18 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > schools really need a proxy like squid. One person hits a site and then
> > 30 others hit the same site. Squid will (in this example) cut the used
> > bandwidth to about 1/30 as the first hit is cached. Saw this in action
> > during the APS Linux thin client project. bandwidth is scarce in schools
> > and not having a caching proxy is just a bad idea.
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> I don't have any in my service area that don't have a proxy. Before the
> majority of mine all had fiber between the bulk of their schools-
> there's a couple that have wireless links because of multiple carriers
> and that mess, and a few that have no choice but phone-line based
> solutions-  I had a few that used dual-level proxies, too. Since they
> had, say, 768k/sec back to the board office, we put proxies in local to
> save both internal and external slowness. This was when a district would
> have 1 T1 line.
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> Of course, back then, squid was VERY scary to configure. Not so much
> anymore. I suspect some of the boxes they've paid for are indeed squid.
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> The last time I saw some stats, schools average about 40% cache hits. It
> helps, of course, but 3megs is still not that much for a whole school.
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