On 26-07-2010, Dario Teixeira <darioteixe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > >> I am creating an application with ocsigen that requires to serve a lot >> of .tar.gz as static contents. >> >> Do you think the "no Unix supports non-blocking mode" will cause problem >> in this case? > > I presume that application is related to the Oasis-DB initiative, right?
You guess right ;-) > I wouldn't worry too much in that case. First, because the Ocaml community > is not that big (yet) as to cause such heavy traffic. Second, because > the set of tar.gz files is not that great (a few hundred, max?) and those > files will tend to be small. If your server has enough memory, there's a > good chance many of the file blocks requested will eventually be buffered > in memory by the kernel, thus minimising expensive disc I/O. > There is indeed a good chance that the files end up in memory. Thank you for your remarks. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
