[10465] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Mirror Negotiation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chanda Dharap)
Tue Dec 10 13:28:22 1996
To: Peter J Churchyard <pjc@tis.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:54:04 EST."
<199612101654.LAA20585@dira.rv.tis.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:12:51 -0800
From: Chanda Dharap <chanda@mowgli.PRPA.Philips.COM>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
>For large sites that have a caching proxy, pre-loading info info the
>cache/directory could be useful. Most large mirrors already have
>'ls -alR' files around. You could then process these to pre-load the
>cache's directory.
I remember there were studies that showed proxy caching was not much
of an improvement. Cannot remember references right away, but one of
them was DEC's Proxy caching study , it appeared in one of the first
WWW conferences.
Has anyone given thought to some sort of a hierarchy of caches ? Maybe
topical caches as opposed to regional ? Caching could be a combination
of server-side Proxy caching as well as caching at the hierarchy.
The hierarchy of caches would be neither at the server nor at the
client, somewhere in between.
??
- Chanda Dharap
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Philips research Labs,
Palo Alto, CA
