On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 07:02:37AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > A small note: > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:20:49PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > > > > > In contrast, Debian has (at least) two mirrors on WAIX, if I don't > > > > mirror the updates myself (I can do so easily) they too go into my Squid > > > > cache. > > > > > > Did you modify squid's config for caching debian "perfectly"? > > > > No. Should I? > > For once, squid won't cache anything larger than (by default) 4MB.
I have it caching files somewhat larger than that. > > And generally you should make sure that all the relevant pckages stay in > the cache long enough. Accomplished by making the cache sufficiently large;-) At present, disk constraints prevent me from making it as large as I'd like, but I'd expect a few gigabytes would hold all components different distroes and arches that interest me. Fewer gigabytes than holding all those 9000 packages in Woody for IA32, PowerPC, Sparc and S390. > And again for testing, but more packages. > > > > > > > > Do you ever get any problems with partial downloads? > > > > No. Should I? > > I remember I had such problems in the past, but with really bad network A long time ago, earlier Squid, dialup, OS/2 (I think)... > -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
