Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)
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- Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
- Date
- Dec 10, 2006, 22:08 UTC
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- <457C8579.5080407@garzik.org>
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- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612101228590.12500@woody.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> Well, the idea (perhaps stupid idea: I don't know how caching engines >> / reverse proxy works) was that there would be caching engine / reverse >> proxy in the front (Squid for example) would cache results and serve it >> to rampaging hordes. > > Sure, if the proxies actually do the rigth thing (which they may or may > not do)
squid seems to work well as an HTTP accelerator (reverse proxy). Apache's mem|disk cache stuff fails miserably.
Unfortunately squid development seems to have slowed in recent years.
Jeff