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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:10:41 -0700
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Subject: Re: CouchDb and Web Cache
From: Randall Leeds <randall.leeds@gmail.com>
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Running a cache on the same computer as CouchDB probably won't help
much since it will force out the filesystem cache that CouchDB
desperately needs to perform really well.

If you have another box with spare memory it'll absolutely work as
expected if you let it proxy to Couch.

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:23, Oleg Ryaboy <oryaboy@digitalriver.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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>
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> Does it make any sense to put Web Cache in front of CouchDb? It seems
> that while CouchDb provides all of the appropriate headers to make
> results cacheable, it has its own cache, so web cache would be totally
> superfluous. Is that correct?
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>
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> Thanks!
>
> Oleg
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>