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Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted
From: Bill Unsworth <bill () u-net net>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 09:49:53 +0000
Interesting discussion - no many comments from ISPs currently using caching regarding the effectiveness - cache hit rates or bandwidth "saved". Any strategies for populating caches (in addition to user hits)? Bill At 12:08 PM 2/3/98 -0800, you wrote:
Or, if you are a "Cheap Bastard (tm)", you can take a copy of Squid (http://squid.nlanr.net), and an OS which can handle transparent proxying (Solaris, Linux, etc), a high performance RAID, and have yourself the equivilent. Squid is a heirarchial web cache/proxy/accelerator available
for
free.i love squid. i use it as a nontransparent proxy and also as the web server accelerator for all of the content we publish. squid is really cool, especially squid-novm. i worry a bit about the supposed proxy capabilities of these other os's. we don't think of ourselves as idiots here when it comes to kernel programming, and so the fact that it's taken a year of wizard level kernel muckraking to get a system that can do thousands of simultaneous transparent sessions makes me think that it's actually a hard problem. we got basic kernel transparency working in an afternoon. the devil is in the details though.
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- Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Rose, JulianX (Feb 03)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Adrian Bool (Feb 03)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Paul A Vixie (Feb 03)
- RE: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Jordan Mendelson (Feb 03)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Paul A Vixie (Feb 03)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Paul R.D. LANtinga (Feb 03)
- RE: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Jordan Mendelson (Feb 03)
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- RE: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Rose, JulianX (Feb 03)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Bill Unsworth (Feb 04)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Lyndon Levesley (Feb 04)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Paul A Vixie (Feb 04)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Matt Ranney (Feb 05)
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- MTU size & IP packet size distributions Ran Atkinson (Feb 05)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Paul A Vixie (Feb 05)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Paul A Vixie (Feb 04)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Dirk Harms-Merbitz (Feb 04)
- Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Paul Gauthier (Feb 04)
- RE: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted Barry Raveendran Greene (Feb 05)