The caching system seems to be working …
Posted January 22nd, 2008 at 1:56 am by Ste
Filed in: Misc, Nullriver, Repo Issues
It seems to be working pretty good for the most part. There have only been a couple of problem reports. As I write this, it’s been 11 1/2 hours since the caching system went into effect when Nullriver updated the “Community Sources” package for me. Since then, 200 cache servers around the world have picked up and started serving the XML file, and the number is climbing all the time. Much better than just my one server serving it!
Already, I am seeing the access.log scroll by slower as I continually tail it. I even see the occasional brief pause in the output - something I haven’t seen in months. So, it looks like the caches are starting to take away some of the load and traffic, as hoped.
If you haven’t already updated your “Community Sources” package to the latest version, please do so. The faster people do, the faster the load on my server goes down. Thanks!
-ste
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January 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 am
Glad to hear you found a solution ste. I have web hosting at 1and1.com with 1.2 teras of xfer if you get me the info I would gladly add my site to the list of cache servers. I never use anywhere close to my limit.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:25 am
Good morning!
I have installed the nullriver update, but unfortunately since then, I have not gotten any updated to installer whatsoever, even manually.
None of the updates posted 1/21 have yet to show up. I suppose that it may not have been updated on a cache server near me yet, though that seems unlikely. Is there any way to force a check other than the reload button?
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 am
Hello, it finally updated :))
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I’m not sure that this is a “solution” yet. I’d never even heard of this caching system (see: http://coralcdn.org) before a couple of days ago. This is really just a big test of it for me, which I’m hoping works well enough to use.
I’ve had a few reports of it not working for some people, so I can’t call it a complete success yet. It does seem to be doing pretty good for most people though. Time will tell.
-ste