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

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