Re: polipo scalability

Hi Iwan,

The biggest reason is GPL.

Ming


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Iwan BK <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:42:21 -0500
> Ming Fu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have used polipo for a lower hundreds of users as a general caching
> > proxy. But as Juliusz said, with some pain and some code
> > modifications on my own.
>
> Hi Ming Fu, thanks for your response.
> Just curious, why you prefer polipo instead of squid for such large
> number of users?
> From
>
> http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/polipo.html#Harvest-and-Squid<http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/%7Ejch/software/polipo/polipo.html#Harvest-and-Squid>
> ,
> the advantage of polipo over squid is cache partial instance &
> pipelining.
> The other guess is you use slow/embedded machine for the proxy.
>
> >
> > If you just want to set up a small web proxy for a business and
> > prefer setup and forget it, then Polipo is not your first choice.
> >
> > Ming
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:37 AM, IBK <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I just found polipo and have used it in my laptop, and it seems
> > > great.
> > >
> > > >From the polipo manual
> > > ( http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/polipo.html<http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/%7Ejch/software/polipo/polipo.html>
> <http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/%7Ejch/software/polipo/polipo.html>
> > > )
> > > "Polipo is a caching web proxy designed to be used as a personal
> > > cache or a cache shared among a few users."
> > >
> > > Can someone give more hint about 'a few users'. How many users or
> > > how much speed that polipo can handle?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
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