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Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Dec 9, 2006, 00:47 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0612081640400.3516@woody.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> It's kind of silly to have people wait for 20 seconds just because a cache 
> expired five seconds ago. Much nicer to say "ok, we allow a certain 
> grace-period during which we'll do the real lookup, but to make things 
> _look_ really responsive, we still use the old cached value".
> 
Yup, DNS does this, and it's a Very Good Thing.
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