On Jan 12, 2004, at 17:01, Gabriel Wicke wrote:
If we have an old machine Squid will serve anything
cached straight
from
memory (small objects) or disk (images) without ever contacting the
database. That's a speedup of at least 50x over the current disk cache
with DB lookup etc.
...which would only work as such if we make changes to the wiki which
are roughly identical to the changes we'd have to make to the present
caching system to avoid hitting the database to confirm timestamps.
(ie, explicit purging of cached pages that are no longer valid)
Squid may be a great caching system, but for purposes of this
discussion it's not really different from what we've got.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)