Niklas Edmundsson wrote:
I might add that our FTP mirror has a bunch of DVD images, and even at full gigabit speed it takes some 40 seconds to cache it and that's simply too long before the server starts responding by sending data to the client.
Probably a little OT, but why don't you just rsync these images to the front end server? Even the best code can be killed by a bad architecture ;)
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