Re: [Cppcms-users] Caching files

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

I am working on online WenGL games. Now the use case is many will play and
one user may download media files many times every day.


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Artyom Beilis <art...@ya...> wrote:

> Can you explain what are you trying to do?
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> On Wed, 12/4/13, Shiv Shankar Dayal <shi...@gm...> wrote:
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>  Subject: Re: [Cppcms-users] Caching files
>  To: cpp...@li...
>  Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 2:01 PM
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>  I think web server nginx can
>  manage my case as it knows whether the request has to be
>  served with 200 or 304. I had another question, related to
>  async io, is most of the time network will be slow. SO
>  suppose I want to pause the file stream which is reading
>  into memory buffer so is there anyway to pause the reading
>  until what has been read and then restart the reading like
>  in Node.js or do I need to code it because I do not see this
>  in Doxygen documentation.
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>  On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at
>  5:19 PM, 陈抒 <csf...@gm...>
>  wrote:
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>  Hi, The way you mentioned can be called
>  as in-process cache.  When we talking about
>  cache, there are a few kinds of cache technology,
>  in-process, out-of-process cache, local file cache, browser
>  cache.
>
>
>   For your case, you can cache these static files in
>  your app, or cache them with Nginx + Memcached/MongoDB. The
>  latter way does not need you to implement your cache
>  algorithm. Another way is to use in-process
>  & out-of-process cache together. Web servers cache files
>  in their process, but if the file is not found, it can load
>  it from remote cache server of database.
>
>
>
>
>  Dean Chen
>  Best regards
>  http://blog.csdn.net/csfreebird
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>  On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Shiv
>  Shankar Dayal <shi...@gm...>
>  wrote:
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>
>  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.
>
>
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>  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.
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>
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>  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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