- From: David W. Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 16:39:31 -0800 (PST)
- To: HTTP Caching Subgroup <http-caching@pa.dec.com>
On Sat, 6 Jan 1996, Koen Holtman wrote: > Estimates could be made by content authors, or semi-automatically by > access log statistics tools (counting GETs, and, especially, > conditional GETs). > > Such a scheme may allow 500 Mb caches to get hit rates that are now > only possible with multi-gigabyte caches. On the other hand, having > estimated-visits-per-day=N may not make much of a difference at all. Well, hard disk space is so cheap, that is seems foolish to work very hard to differentiate performance for what is a $500 hardware cost per proxy. Also, if the proxy it self can't decide what to keep based on hit counts for things it has cached, it seems unlikely in the general proxy case that having the servers it talks to claim heavy hit counts will make a difference. Dave Morris
Received on Sunday, 7 January 1996 00:52:50 UTC