Re: Data --> object store --> client

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > For example, if the request was a fairly large HTML document, the code
> > only reads in a few lines at a time, stores it, then copies to client. I'm
> > just curious why it's done this way, rather than reading entire object in,
> > storing it, then copy entire object to client? (not complaining, just
> > curious).
>
> Because it's essentially the only way that scales.

FWIW, squid-1.x did the above in the VM versions (the NOVM dumped
the contents of an object onto disk and then back out to the client
without any memory caching..)

Adrian
Received on Fri Aug 09 2002 - 06:36:50 MDT