On Wed, 2006 Apr 05 09:00:04 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > So, finally, I decided to take the bitter pill and rewrite it in C++. I > think the implementation is done to ~60 percent now, including partial > component tests. From the current POV I think this will be a > "double-threaded daemon", not single-threaded because I create an extra > thread dealing with database connections. The HTTP connections threads > and clients are created using internal statemachines.
I see this topic has received a lot more of your attention than I previously thought :] This is indeed an impressive change, and as a side effect it may make backporting to woody easier (for my setup). > I think I will use qdbm to store the mapping between physical paths and > the checksum+filesize+shortname that they provide. And per each > available host (to reduce the memory usage) a smaller qdbm database > caching contents of all known Packages/Sources/... files. ObBinaryDatabaseParanoia: I trust the database files would be trivially re-generable from cached copies of Packages/Sources/*.deb/..., if the former are corrupted/deleted for any reason? Looking forward to the next major release of apt-cacher. Thanks for the fine work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
