- From: Ian Hoyle <ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 09:56:13 +1000
- To: www-proxy@www10.w3.org
>I would say that the choice of caching server directly affects the machine
>that you need to use. The CERN server is a forking server and with any
>significant traffic will destroy all but the fastest machine.
I think the new Netscape proxy server is a threaded implementation so
will probably outperform the CERN server at busy sites where the forking
overhead really starts to be noticed ....
ian
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