Re: Obsessed with a clean system
Loki wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
>
>>>I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that
>>>proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than
>>>needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages already downloaded
>>>by earlier hosts.
>
>
> Well yeah, if you have infinite disk space to devote to your cache. :)
> ...
> Also, things cycle out of the cache. They expire, or you run out of cache
> space and Squid wisely deletes cache objects. It's good, but a mirror is
> better.
You don't need infinite disk space to make use of a cache. You only
need enough to store the sets of packages that you use. I'm about to
build a new mail/proxy/web server with 80 Gb drives in RAID 1. About 5
of that 80 Gb will be required for the actual work of the server (the
current machine has 4 Gb total), and i could easily spare 40 Gb for cache.
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Paul
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