[Tech] [Discussion] Intro / notes on the new Ascend setup

[Christian Einfeldt]

Hi, bottom posting...

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Elizabeth K. Joseph <lyz at partimus.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Steven Z <qwarlock at qwarlock.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you just want to get what you have allowiing bigger files to be cached
> > then can I get you to check your current squid-conf against this one? The
> > section on allowing cached filess up to 4G is most interesting. I am very
> > curious if there is a match in there.
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > #
> > # Installs Squid proxy / cache and points Apt to it.
> > # Cached packages are located at: /var/spool/squid
> >
> > # Install Squid
> > apt-get install -y squid
> >
> > # Change this to the subnet your box runs on
> > echo "acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/16" >> /etc/squid/squid.conf
> >
> > # Cache files up to 4GB
> > echo "maximum_object_size 4000 MB" >> /etc/squid/squid.conf
> >
> > # Allow a total cache size of 10GB
> > echo "cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 10000 16 256" >>
> /etc/squid/squid.conf
> >
> > service squid restart
> >
> > # Point apt to Squid cache
> > echo "Acquire { Retries \"0\"; HTTP { Proxy \"http://localhost:3128\";
> }; };" >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
>
> I believe we want caching not just on packages, but in general so when
> all the students go to the same website during a class they can take
> advantage of caching.


That is true.

We also want to have the students' data cached on the server so that if a
student gets re-assigned from one machine to another, the student's
settings and data will remain intact.

Thanks so much to everyone who is contributing their thoughts to this
effort!
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