Re: [Cppcms-users] Caching files

[Marcel H. <ke...@co...>]

Google: cppcms serving static files
http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/cppcms_1x_serving_static_files

On 04.12.2013 12:13, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Suppose I am making few online game the clearly it is going to involve
> some media. Let us say I have 2GB of artwork which will remain
> constant. Is is not better that when the application starts then load
> all these files in memory and serve from there to users rather than
> putting them in database and doing a caching.
Why do you put static files (pictures, etc) in a database?! I said it
already. Don't!
>
> I think it is much better to load from raw filesystem and keep then in
> memory in application and serve from there. The only thing which is
> going to happen is when app will start it will take time. But it is
> much better than async io because we know how much data we have before
> hand and 2G or something like even 10G data is not much as far as
> keeping that in memory is concerned.
Yep. As the link above says, let the webserver do its job!
>
> Please note that this is static data will never change so can be kept
> in const global buffers. Please share your opinions.
>
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