Thanks Joshua for your response. I hope this is documented somewhere. I was wondering if any other disk operation e.g. cleanup would interfere and degrade the overall performance.
Thanks, Kunal On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Kunal Shah > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is mod_mem_cache modules "cache" is shared among the Multiple processes > > started using MPM module? Is there any special configuration needed? > > The cache is shared between all works in the same process. That means > it will be mostly-shared when using threaded mpms (worker/event) but > not when using process-based mpms (prefork). > > > > > My tests with mod_disk_cache works with MPM module, since all processes > > points to the same "cache directory" and finds it. > > Yes, the disk cache is shared. > > As I've already mentioned this week, in many circumstances the disk > cache will outperform the memory cache because it offloads the work of > cache and memory management to the highly-optimized kernel filesystem > code. A modern OS will keep frequently-accessed parts of the cache in > the buffer cache, so you don't suffer a speed penalty from the disk > access. > > Joshua. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
