Last modified: 2012-11-11 22:33:09 UTC
More detail later.
In bug 36577, we discovered that Varnish doesn't currently do well with streaming large files. Tim wrote in an email conversation on this subject: > We could probably patch MediaWiki to use a different upload hostname > for large files. The image row should already be loaded from the cache > or database in all the relevant places, so there shouldn't be any > overhead. Then we could use Squid or some specialized media streaming > proxy for large files. ...to which Asher replied: > This sounds like a good idea even if varnish becomes the right solution for > all of our caching needs. We may want to select dIfferent storage for video > caches, and we should be able to cache videos above swift without > potentially evicting many images. This bug is about implementing this idea.
> Media storage?
Re-purposed.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27855/
(In reply to comment #4) > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27855/ Merged.