Re: [Cppcms-users] Caching files

[Shiv S. D. <shi...@gm...>]

Thanks :-)


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Marcel Hellwig <ke...@co...> wrote:

> 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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Respect,
Shiv Shankar Dayal