On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 14:50 -1000, David Burns wrote: > If there's only one person using the proxy, how does it speed things > up? Faster the second time (in other words, usually it won't)? > bandwidth savings from skipping ads? If there's only one user, that's about the only advantage that I can see. The other is revisiting a page, some websites don't cache well in the browser's cache (because they're deliberately written to make that fail), yet Squid sometimes caches them. So a revisit is quicker. Running a proxy does have disadvantages: It's unavoidable that more processing is more work. A proxy in between can slow things down, as first the browser asks, the proxy gets, then the browser does. You use more drive space caching in the proxy and the browser. More software generally does include more problems. And some sites are proxying/caching hostile. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
