On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:59:08PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 13:52 -0700, Jay Buffington wrote: > > Even if you are in a multiple server environment you should still be > > able to use Cache::FastMmap. You'll just have to make sure that the > > global param share_file is a file that would be shared to all servers > > (perhaps over an NFS mount). > > I would be pretty cautious with that. Unless your NFS server handles > fcntl perfectly, you could be in big trouble. I'd try a torture test > with multiple processes on different machines banging on it. Many > people have reported locking issues with various NFS servers over the > years. > > Even if it does work, NFS is slow enough that it may be better to use > Cache::Memcached or just MySQL at that point.
I would also be suprised if anyone would want to run NFS on machines that are used as public webservers due to security issues with NFS. Cheers, Roger