From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:23:48 GMT
Subject: Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)
Message-ID: <457A0214.9010900@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <f2b55d220612081618v26f7c714l7d4ea5315a964aa@mail.gmail.com>

Michael K. Edwards wrote:
> On 12/8/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> There is another thing that probably will be required, and I'm not sure
>> if something in front of Apache (like Squid) rather than behind it can
>> easily deal with: on timeout, the process needs to continue in order to
>> feed the cache.  Otherwise, you're still in a failure scenario as soon
>> as timeout happens.
> 
> I would think this would be a great deal easier to handle in an
> arm's-length "accelerator" than in the origin server

True, but it needs to run behind Apache rather than in front of it.

	-hpa