Re: Tux as a remote server caching device?

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:05:01 -0800
Miles Elam <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Real time" and "cached" are sometimes mutually exclusive.  

Not in this case.  By realtime I mean, I have no idea what objects need
to be cache until they are requested.  Once they are cached they can
stay there until I tell them to be uncached.

>Are you sure 
> that Squid or another similar web cache wouldn't be a better fit?  

I am looking for a way to replace/augment squid.  Squid does a lot of
nifty things, but I have a relatively simple need: cache objects and
uncache them when I say so.  We are currently running squid and a
commercial product to do this, but the load is getting high for them.

>It's 
> beginning to sound to me like you are trying to make TUX do things for
> which it wasn't originally intended in terms of scope. 

According to the docs it can do this.  The docs are vague and
incomplete.  The API appears to have support for this, but it does not
seem to work as advertised.

> A whole lot of 
> effort just so you can say that you are using TUX?

No.  I have a problem, and it initially appears that TUX may help me
solve it.  If it does not solve the problem, thenI will not use it.


--Brian