- From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:04:48 +0100 (MET)
- To: pjc@trusted.com (Peter J Churchyard)
- Cc: fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU, sjk@amazon.com, http-caching@pa.dec.com
> Is anybody planning to do any modelling of these protocols? > > As I understand it, millions of http clients and servers may be > expected to implement a protocol thats designed to be used in a > continental mega cache - continental mega cache situation. Wouldn't this > rather special situation better be handled by a specific protocol for that > environment? you raise an interesting point. Another thing I would really like to know, to what extent we can expect hierarchical caching to be effective ? We know that there are some very popular servers on the internet, so that caching traffic to these servers might look effective. But the objects are single files/documents. What percentage of the millions of files of these servers gets really accessed let's say 10 or more times (within a reasonable time frame, say 1 week .. 1 month), so that caching really turns out to be a significant saving ? And, especially, how many of these files get accessed just once, so that no caching policy is going to help ? I suspect getting these info from some very large server would really help in determining what we could expect from our cache, the depth of the hierarchy, etc. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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