Re: [squid-users] Ideal cache placement (was Re: Why Squid is great (was: fourth cache off??))

Jon Kay wrote:
> You telling us that iMimic caches don't support ICP, Cache Digest, or
> even cache hierarchies? Really??? Yet another reason to go Squid!

This argument is getting tiring. I responded to Joe because he
(possibly unwittingly) misrepresented my previous statements.
Now you seem to be intentionally doing so. Nowhere did I make
the sorts of statements that you suggest above. I see no point in
continuing.

As for your strawman comparison, it would be a lot more believable
if the numbers were from an actual large deployment, or if you'd
used the best DataReactor numbers (17ms hit, 2652ms miss). One
tech report or paper at ICDCS doesn't constitute reality. Our OEMs
are seeing numbers in the field in-line with the throughputs they've
shown at the cacheoffs, and in many cases with even higher hit
rates.

I'm not against hint caches or cooperative deployments per se -
in fact, if they become popular, one of our OEMs would probably
love to sell a few hundred units at a time to interested parties.
This scenario would be ideal for the "microcache" segment of the
most recent cacheoff, where both entries were sub-$1000 and showed
capacities of 120-325 req/sec.

However, until hint caches are widely deployed, it's all about the
numbers of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.

-Vivek
Received on Sat Dec 22 2001 - 21:06:00 MST