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
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