On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Jared Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Can distribute them across multiple domain names, > thereby bypassing the browser/HTTP limits. > > Something along the lines of > 'c'.(crc32($title) & 3).'.en.wikipedia.org' > > Would atleast attempt to download upto 4 times as many things.
Right, but it reduces connection reuse. So you end up taking more TCP handshakes and spend more time with a small transmission window. (plus more DNS round-trips; relevant because wikimedia uses low TTLs for GSLB reasons) TNSTAAFL. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
