Re: Couple of quick queries regarding cache digest build

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Alex Rousskov wrote:

> A much better (and possibly simpler!) approach would be to
> 1. Make sure all digests are of the same (excessively big size)
> (fiddle with constants that control heuristics for sizing
> a digest)
> 2. Request digests from individual Squids and merge them
> (essentially, it would be a bitwise ORing of digest bodies).

Good idea :-)

First off though, I think I'll try doing it the way I thought of first -
since that'll be a nice quick and nasty hack that gets me into the swing
of finding out what's where in the code and then try and do this better
way of doing it :-)

Cheers,

Michael.

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