From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:01:48 GMT
Subject: Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)
Message-ID: <46a038f90612101401m5f65aefbh78f7adf84725ade4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612101228590.12500@woody.osdl.org>

On 12/11/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> Sure, if the proxies actually do the rigth thing (which they may or may
> not do)

For a high-traffic setup like kernel.org, you can setup a local
reverse proxy -- it's a pretty standard practice. That allows you to
control a well-behaved and locally tuned caching engine just by
emitting good headers.

It beats writing and maintaining an internal caching mechanism for
each CGI script out there by a long mile. It means there'll be no
further tunables or complexity for administrators of other gitweb
installs.

cheers,