Its a lot of little files and from what i've seen, the stat call is a bottleneck. If they are all in memcache, then it should scream.
Which "hints" would you be referring? On Jun 18, 10:56 am, Javier Guerra Giraldez <jav...@guerrag.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:22 PM, TheIvIaxx <theivi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My thoughts right now are for it to check memcached for the key, if > > not found, then serve up the file from disk. Everything else goes to > > apache. I will just have a cron job populate memcached separately. > > > Is this a common practice or is there a better method for this? > > be sure to benchmark it. in many cases, nginx will serve from static > files just as fast as from memcached. > > yeah sounds crazy, but if nginx give the OS some hints, it will cache > the files in RAM, a lot more efficiently than memcached (less context > switches, no TCP involved, can dynamically get hold and release RAM as > available, etc...) > > -- > Javier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
