[Catalyst] Simple caching question

Jesse Sheidlower jester at panix.com
Fri Nov 7 14:02:21 GMT 2008


On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 05:23:29PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> 
> Given how light my requirements are--the app's been chugging
> along fine for years without any caching--I don't think I need
> to bother putting another app into the mix. The memory
> requirements for Memcached don't worry me--the server never
> goes down, and even if it did, another round of database
> retrievals wouldn't hurt anybody--but if it's something that
> needs managing, I'll just go with FastMmap and see how that
> works.

Hmm.

I'm not sure what's going on, but PageCache is actually making
my app _slower_. Regardless of where I put the config stuff,
on my laptop running ab I'm seeing about 38-39 requests/sec
running without PageCache, but 35-36 with.

Hmm.

Jesse



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