Re: Squid vs Apache

From: Bill Benedetto <benedetw@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 16:31:52 -0500

Ricardo Galli wrote:
>
> Apache does a fork for every conection, apart of being slower with a high
> load (because there is not enough time for preforking), it consumes a lot
> of memory and CPU.
>
I'll buy that...

> There are a lot more reasons, I can write a lot of pages about*, but if
> you really want to have a cache (even without joining any hierarchy), forget
> Apache by now (we were using Apache before "meeting" Squid...)
>

But Apache does caching as well. Or are you saying that Apache's
caching is inferior to Squid's? And what else would you write?
Is there an online source that I might refer to? (If you don't
want to waste bandwidth you can just email directly...)

- Bill
Received on Wed Mar 12 1997 - 13:41:34 MST

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