On Jan 12, 2004, at 17:01, Gabriel Wicke wrote:
If we have an old machine Squid will serve anything cached straight from memory (small objects) or disk (images) without ever contacting the database. That's a speedup of at least 50x over the current disk cache with DB lookup etc.
...which would only work as such if we make changes to the wiki which are roughly identical to the changes we'd have to make to the present caching system to avoid hitting the database to confirm timestamps. (ie, explicit purging of cached pages that are no longer valid)
Squid may be a great caching system, but for purposes of this discussion it's not really different from what we've got.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)