Is anyone gathering up the web proxy logs from any of the school servers? (I presume they do run a proxy cache)
The reason I ask is that if the logs show the kids are hitting dynamic web sites frequently, and that multiple kids are hitting the same site, then it might be worth installing rproxy on the school servers. That would allow effective cacheing of dynamic pages. Normally a proxy cache can't cache a page like slashdot.org (not that the kids would be reading slashdot!) as it changes each time. By using rproxy, only the changes would come across the slow link, thus saving valuable bandwidth. Whether its worthwhile all depends on the ratios of dynamic and non-dymamic content, and whether kids tend to flock to the same sites or reload a dynamic site often enough that its worth the extra hundred or so bytes per request that rproxy adds. So we'd need logs to work out if its worth the effort. rproxy hasn't had much TLC lately, but that's easy enough to fix. Cheers, Tridge _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel