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jech / polipo

The Polipo caching HTTP proxy
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/
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Objects larger than available memory #19

Open jech opened 10 years ago

jech commented 10 years ago

There have been some reports of Polipo failing to properly serve objects larger than available memory, even in the absence of revalidation failures. (There's probably not much that can be done with uncachable objects without some major surgery to Polipo.)

kaspar030 commented 9 years ago

Any updates on this? I've been running in this a lot. I'm trying to use polipo to accelerate downloading of large file (e.g., game patch files) by multiple users, on a route with little RAM.

With 1M of chunk memory and a 100M test file, starting multiple (>5) simultaneous downloads of that file causes clients to stall forever, polipo dropping the server connection, ...

jech commented 9 years ago

As far as I know, there's nobody working on that — feel free to try your hand at it. (Such questions are probably better sent to the mailing list.)

YSL21 commented 7 years ago

I know this is an old post but im getting this error. Anyone know how this can be fixed?