[ATrpms-users] ATRPMS down?

[David Rees]

On 5/7/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> Yes, I will be experimenting first. I had squid running in transparent
> proxy mode before, the only thing I'm a bit worried are files going
> through two processes, e.g. eating twice as much memory.

Memory use will be much lower. Squid will transfer the file from
Apache very quickly since it's on the same machine/network, so it's
use of Apache processes will be very limited.

So for a light load your machine will use more memory as squid will
also be running, but for heavy loads memory utilization will be much
lower as you shouldn't see lots of concurrent Apache connections,
especially if you give squid some cache space.

Other alternatives would be to look at thttpd or lighttpd which scale
much better than Apache.

-Dave