On 1/30/06, Chris Knipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Last time I checked, perl's threads wasn't very popular to use. Now > >> that's > >> a discussion on it's own I guess, and not the intensions of this email to > >> get into. I'm planning to develop a rather large perl application. Due > >> to > >> complexity, I plan to run multiple processes, each process being spawned > >> from a single main process... Is there any way that I can share data > >> between them? > > > > Lots of ways. Here's one that's worked for me. The shared data live in > > some convenient location, like a directory, a file, or a database, > > depending upon your needs. A little glue code in a module handles > > access to the data in a consistent way, maybe using something from the > > Tie::* hierarchy to provide a simple interface. > > Hi, > > Thanks for the suggestion. This has been recommended to me by someone off > the list as well (or something relatively close to it), and unfortunately is > not going to be very efficient. It's going to kill the system as far as > disk IO is concerned. I'm talking about 200+ variables here, about half of > which will change approximately every 10ms (some even less). Doing 100 odd > disk writes/reads every 10ms, plus more than likely searching through open > files for a specific variable, and closing it in time so that it can be > written again... Don't think it will be feasable. > > I'll need to do this in memory I'm afraid... :( > > -- > Chris
You might consider the following modules: Cache::Memcached - client library for memcached (memory cache daemon) POE - portable multitasking and networking framework for Perl IPC::Shareable - share Perl variables between processes Cache::RamDisk - Sharing of Perl Objects Between Processes on Several RAM Drives -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
