[Nottingham] NTL Cache Performance Suggestions

Jon Masters nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sun Mar 2 00:13:01 2003


On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, .waffle wrote:

> apt-get cache? Err... Isn't it stored in like /var/apt/packages or
> something?

Be evil like me, NFS mount a directory there, sod race conditions. ;-)

Stick an apt-get update in a cron job (not an upgrade obviously) and use a
shared directory for archives - not the package lists - (just don't do
stuff at the same time on both hosts). It works, so does squid...

Jon.