North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: topological closeness....
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote: > "Public cacheing" has little merit, as efficiency of > cacheing decreases when covered population grows > beyond some threshold (i.e when diversity of requests > overwhelms the cacheing capacity -- process better > known as "thrashing"). > > On the other side, small populations do not produce > aggregatable demand patterns. > > I.e. it looks like that ISP-provided cache servers would > be optimal. Especially so since ISP's have the opportunity to do social engineering on their users by maintaining a "What's HOT" page on their server with daily updates. If you can get people to check in on your WWW reviews first then you have a much greater chance of getting cache hits. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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