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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Dec 10, 2006, 20:30 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612101228590.12500@woody.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <200612102127.05894.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> 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)

> What about the other idea, the one with raising expires to infinity for
> immutable pages like "commit" view for commit given by SHA-1? Even if
> the clients won't cache it, the proxies and caches between gitweb and
> client might cache it...

I agree, but as mentioned, I think the _real_ problem tends to be the pages that don't act that way (ie summary pages, both at the individual project level and the top "all projects" level).