On Thu, 16 May 2002, jason andrade wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > No. We have found that some web servers will use redirects to correct > > spelling mistakes, a properly functioning archive server should never > > issue them. > > Our issue is that apache isn't scaling well for us for our current > traffic levels (about 1Tb/day) and we have to take measures to deal > with this. Splitting it between different types of servers has worked > well, but the only problem we have is dealing with apt.
1 terabit? Hmm.. ftp.d.o does about 3 terabit/day and it isn't bothered too much running apache. It's just a little P2-350 too. If you are doing a terabyte/day.. Well.. good lord! :> Anyhow, if you are worried about load from apt then doing redirects at all will be noticable both to you and your clients. It is much better to simply avoid them entirely. > with a browser will fail. (i don't even pretend to be clueful about > using apt - does it ever try and do any kind of directory listing?) Nope. Only http get. One big warning though, if you are using a web server other than apache it may be slightly buggy and people using it with APT may get upset. In the past servers have had problems with HTTP/1.1 If-Range, pipelining and keepalive that APT makes heavy use of. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
