[Nottingham] NTL Cache Performance Suggestions

[Alex Tibbles]

> I like that:  ``Instead of downloading the odd 5MB
> file from the mirror, I'm
> going to continuously rsync 80GB but never use 99.9%
> of it.''
... although, with sarge practically stalled at the
moment, the downloads won't even reach that. rsync
AFAIK takes large quantities of _server_ CPU time -
which is why jigdo was introduced to replace the
pseudo image kit
(http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Debian-Jigdo/whyjigdo.html#WHYNOTUSETHEWHOLEPIK).
So, while the bandwidth donor has to pay by the GB,
rsync'ing limits the number of concurrent users far
more.

On a slightly different note, I run two sid machines
and it feels really wasteful to download xfree86 (et
al.) twice. What I could use is an apt-get cache. Does
anyone know of such a thing?

alex


> 	-Paul
> -- 
> No War.    Nottingham, GB
indeed

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