On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 11:34:59AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Nick Reinking wrote:
I have a much better idea to handle these files,
I'll detail it shortly.
But with HTTP/1.1, moving those files will pages load _slower_ for most
people (since they have to do an additional DNS lookup and connect()),
rather than piggybacking off an already existing HTTP/1.1 connection.
Under normal circumstances, I would agree. But the machine was just
about *this far* from falling over completely, and pages were not
really getting served *at all*. At least the site works for now. :-)
But I'd love to hear your suggestions, too!
Anyhow, since a new server is going to be installed this weekend,
hopefully hardware will save the day... for now. :-)
Actually, I wanted to use the mod_mmap_static module that comes with
Apache. This way, we can avoid stat()s or read()s to the hard disk for
these files that don't change.
Unfortunately, the Apache we have in /usr/local/apache doesn't have it
built in, nor does it have mod_so. Does anybody know why this is?
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Nick Reinking -- eschewing obfuscation since 1981 -- Minneapolis, MN