> - install a squid-accelerator in front of the webserver. The squid can
> run on the same box and is very easy to configure and manage. (It is
> very easy to misconfigure too, so better let me have a look on the
> configuration some time:)
I'm a little bit confused of what value would a squid cache be in this
case. If someone plows through all the files in a Perl distribution,
those files will most likely not be cached (it's not often someone
asks for lib/cacheout.pl, for example), some process will still have
to open up, gunzip and tar xf, the honking big .tar.gz, right?
And because Apache helpfully parallelizes things by having multiple
processes/threads, several of these big unpackings are being unleashed
at the same time.
Either I am unaware of some deep squid magic here or someone will
still be able to bring the server to its knees with a stupid robot.
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