RE: Web caching

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

if you have a fast link, just turn the stupid cache off.  browser caches are
frequently stupid.  Squid does a much better job.  turn browser cache off,
set up a squid proxy on your network, and use that.  best of both worlds.  I
haven't had Squid bork up a page yet[1]

[1] not to say that it WONT, but.. it hasn't done it YET.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Christian Imbeault [mailto:jean_christian@example.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:44 PM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: Web caching


I have been having some problems loading web pages off a particular 
commercial site (slow loading, some pages come up blank). I was worried it 
might be do to my Linux firewall setup or some particularities of web 
browsers under Linus (though I highly doubted it). I wrote their tech 
support and they suggested I regularly clear my cache.

There reasoning is as follows. Sounds like nonsense to me. Can anyone 
comment (with some authority ;) on the soundness of this?

>While storing pages in your cache can speed up the loading time, after 
> >awhile, the loading time can actually decrease due to the large amount 
> >of cached pages crammed into the storage space.  It also begins to >take 
>the computer longer to search through the cached pages to find >the right 
>one.  This can also lead to mistakes and only half the page >loading, or 
>only pieces of the page loading.  Your computer's cache >can also store 
>pages with errors on them.

Jc
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