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

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: 2006-12-11 09:08:57
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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



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