On Tuesday 18 May 2010 12:59:28 William Kenworthy wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 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.
In view of what you say, maybe I ought to look into http-replicator. I have noticed some quite large files being fetched when I thought they ought already to be in squid's cache. -- Rgds Peter.
