Re: squid cache
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:20:54PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 01:43, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > For a while, I was using a huge "percent" parameter to cause it to
> > always bypass that check, and use the "min" age:
>
> That shouldn't be necessary though. Squid tells the web server to only
> deliver the document if it's newer than a cached copy. For .deb files that
> should never happen and override-lastmod should only prevent that check
> saving 500 bytes of transfer but having no impact on the 1M file transfer.
It doesn't just save 500 bytes of transfer, but DNS lookup and
connection setup entirely. Since we know that these files won't change
for a full day, this should be avoidable.
For example, if I am bringing a new server online and my favorite mirror
is unreachable, I can still get package lists, and install any packages
that are already cached (which I should rightly be able to do).
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- mdz
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