Re: Transparent Caching Solutions - Information Wanted

[Bill Unsworth <bill () u-net net>]

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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