Suggestion how to enable caching

[Fabian Deutsch]

----- Original Message -----
> I wonder if we'll really need this on each and every builder.
> Wouldn't one central squid VM suffice?
> It could indeed be useful, also for caching packages pulled by yum.

One central caching instamnces also makes sense, as logn as tit shares the
same network with the builders.

- fabian

> Barak.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fabian Deutsch" <fdeutsch at redhat.com>
> > To: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 2:54:40 PM
> > Subject: Suggestion how to enable caching
> > 
> > Hey.
> > 
> > A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I used squid to improve the build
> > speed of images.
> > 
> > I think the minimal, easy to maintain and valuable solution is this simple
> > config:
> > 
> > 1. Setup squid on builders (default install on Fedora)
> > 2. Add the following lines to the /etc/squid.conf
> > 
> > # Increase maximum size of cached objects and specify the cache_dir
> > # REMEMBER the ORDER
> > maximum_object_size 5 GB
> > cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 20000 16 256
> > 
> > 3. Enable and start squid service
> > 
> > The service will only listen to connections from local networks, and will
> > not
> > proxy connections from public addresses.
> > 
> > The usage then is as follows:
> > 
> > Export http_proxy=127.0.0.1:3128 and all curl instances will pick up the
> > proxy.
> > Similar parameters exist for other tools like the livemedia-creator too.
> > 
> > I am not familiar with writing a puppet class for this. But at least it is
> > quite self contained.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Geetings
> > fabian
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