> Correct the 75% of all hits are on a script that can take
> anywhere from
> a few seconds to a half an hour to complete. The script
> essentially
> auto-flushes to the browser so they get new information as it arrives
> creating the illusion of on demand generation.
This is more like a streaming data server, which is a very different beast
from a webserver, and probably better suited to the job. Usually either
multithreaded or single-process using select() (just like Squid). You could
probably build one pretty easily. Using a 30MB Apache process to serve one
client for half an hour seems like a hell of a waste of RAM.
> A squid proxy would probably cause severe problems when
> dealing with a
> script that does not complete output for a variable rate of time.
No, it's fine, squid gives it to the client as it gets it, but can receive
from the server faster.
