On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:24 -0400, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > My understand is that some people do caching on B simply to let A spit out > all the data and let B handle the connection for as long as it takes to > perform the transfer.
That's right. It's very useful for images and multimedia files too. > I've heard that this can have excellent benefits but have no real world > examples or experience handy. I've seen it cut down the number of database connections needed by a factor of 10. It really helps. - Perrin