Re: Semaphores

2006-03-18 Thread Bill Whillers
Thanks - It'd be great to share this memory, but I'm suspecting start/stop could cause other problems -- i.e. dropping current connections. Also, we'd still need to know when to start/stop the given machine's service. As for touching, instead of using the physical disk, we could use an extra c

Re: Semaphores

2006-03-18 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
i asked something like that once before (though not in terms of mod_perl) , and was told this: if the disk doesn't have a lot of read/writes already, the the OS should optimize a bunch of the filechecking into memory and won't touch the disk if it does have a lot of use ( uploads/ shred