Re: [TCLUG:18516] Squid as an httpd-accelerator

[Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 
> Troy Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Timothy Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 andy@theasis.com wrote:
> > > > To speed up browsing, you can cache on disk pages that are often retrieved
> > > > -- this is good for providing improvements to common sites, say, for
> > > Apache doesn't use RAM for this by itself? If not, then I understand where
> > > Squid would come in handy. I had always assumed that all that RAM people
> > > recommend for Web servers would be used as apache "cache."
> >
> > I think the RAM is for the many copies of Apache httpd deamons forked
> > off to deal with incoming requests, not to cache anything. Squid is made
> 
> Apache doesn't cache static content, AFAIK. The linux kernel, however,
> does. ;)

And it could definitely be enough, especially if the site is small and
exclusively static.

> Personally, I don't see what good running squid on the same machine
> would do as far as performance with static pages.

I should have mentioned that I have not configured Squid in this way,
and I have no idea if it will actually improve performance in a
significant way. I should have prefaced my comments with that statement,
please forgive me.

Troy

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