2010/3/12 Marcus Buck <[email protected]>: > Can you please elaborate? And feel free to use technical terms ;-) Why > would that be a problem? We can cache the English pages so why can't we > cache non-English pages? Of course the amount of rendering events will > rise, but I cannot imagine why this rise would be so immense we cannot > handle it. > First off, the Squid cache would need to contain one entry per language per page, rather than simply one entry per language. This means multiple entries for the same URL that are varied between based on Accept-Language (fragmentation), which in turn means the size of the Squid cache would explode: if there are, say, 20 popular languages out there that cause significant cache population (excluding English), the cache size for Commons would be roughly multiplied by 20, as would the number of render requests to the Apaches.
Second, I believe that Squid currently doesn't even support this kind of fragmentation, but I may be wrong. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
