Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:00:58 -0800 (PST) | From | Dean Gaudet <> | Subject | Re: OSDI paper - IO-Lite: A Unified I/O Buffering and Caching System |
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On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Dean Gaudet wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > > though. Apache maps entire files at once and keeps a cache of file > > > mappings to minimize this. > > > > Apache doesn't have a cache, it can't do an efficient dynamic cache as a > > multiprocess server... (if you find a solution that works tell us ;) > > Funny - I thought I remembered _you_ talking about single Apache processes > keeping multiple mappings around for caching purposes. Maybe I dreamed > that, though I usually don't dream about web servers.
There is mod_mmap_static which you can use to make static mappings at server configuration time... but there's no dynamic cache. If I was talking about single processes keeping mappings around it was probably to say "I've yet to see an efficient approach" :)
Dean
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