[5260] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Caching Servers Considered Harmful (was: Re: Finger URL)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Torkington)
Mon Aug 22 20:24:54 1994
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 02:22:36 +0200
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From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
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John Labovitz writes:
> One solution would be for caching servers to generate a summary of
> hits on URLs `belonging' to particular servers, and to email that
> summary to a standard email address at those servers.
Better might be to add a method that passes on statistics. Eg,
CACHERECORD /ads/citycorp/index.html 52
meaning that 52 requests for /ads/citycorp/index.html were served from
the cache.
The biggest problem for me as a server administrator is that caches
hide accesses and popularity, and that's something that I *need* to
have, to justify the cost of the server. I'd like to see that change.
Nat
