Loki wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > >>>I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that >>>proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than >>>needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages already downloaded >>>by earlier hosts. > > > Well yeah, if you have infinite disk space to devote to your cache. :) > ... > Also, things cycle out of the cache. They expire, or you run out of cache > space and Squid wisely deletes cache objects. It's good, but a mirror is > better.
You don't need infinite disk space to make use of a cache. You only need enough to store the sets of packages that you use. I'm about to build a new mail/proxy/web server with 80 Gb drives in RAID 1. About 5 of that 80 Gb will be required for the actual work of the server (the current machine has 4 Gb total), and i could easily spare 40 Gb for cache. -- Paul <http://paulgear.webhop.net> -- War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. -- Thomas Jefferson <http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/1770> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]