On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 18 May 2010 11:19:06 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > The advantage of http-replicator is that it is a caching proxy - if > > it isnt in the cache, it downloads it and then serves it out to one > > or more clients - rsync/FTP/wget/... can just share whats already > > there, not go get the file in the first place. > > My setup does exactly the same, since squid is running on the same box. >
How have you configured it? - I wouldn't have though squid suitable considering its designed for a different purpose and so regularly expires items in its cache (i.e., they will be available for a limited time before being cleaned.) If you extend max_age, then it becomes unsuitable as a regular web proxy/cache unless you are running multiple instances. There are posts saying that squid doesnt work well with portage but other than a high miss rate (possibly because the files expired?), no details are given. Squid also seems to store its files named something like /var/cache/squid/00/00/000000B9 so its hard to get at them directly without having squid to serve them up while the http-replicator cache is just the raw files - same as "distfiles" in fact. see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1138287#1138287 for details on http-replicator. BillK -- William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> Home in Perth!
