[Nottingham] NTL Cache Performance Suggestions

[Simon Huggins]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:58:37AM +0000, Andy Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Robert Davies wrote:
> >OK so I could easily go and thrash on Gentoo, or Debian mirrors, or RH ISO's
> >but what is the point of having local mirrors of large ftp servers when
> >downloads are 50-125KB/s?
> I've got 3 stable and 1 testing box at the moment, that's going to go
> up at some point. I want a local mirror to reduce the load on the
> official mirrors, making life easier for everybody else.

I take it by testing and stable you mean the branches of Debian?
If so, use apt-proxy.  It will ensure that once all your boxes are
pointed at it you only grab stuff once and only the stuff you need.

You can also proxy the security stuff as well as the regular mirrors.

It's very neat.


Simon.

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