[ATrpms-users] ATRPMS down?

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:31:16PM -0700, David Rees wrote:
> 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.

I think I'd like to try http & squid first. But maybe the KeepAlive
settings will already help. At least legit downloads will now be
really able to reuse the same connection.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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