Akins, Brian wrote: > FWIW, nginx "buffers" backend stuff to a file, then sendfiles it out - I > think this is what perlbal does as well. Same can be done outside apache > using X-sendfile like methods. Seems like we could move this "inside" > apache fairly easy. May can do it with a filter. I tried once and got it > to filter "most" backend stuff to a temp file, but it tended to miss and > block. That was a while ago, but I haven't learned anymore about the > filters since then to think it would work any better. > > Maybe a mod_buffer that goes to a file?
mod_disk_cache can be made to do this quite trivially (it's on the list of things to do When I Have Time(TM)). In theory, a mod_disk_buffer could do this quite easily, on condition upstream writes didn't block. Regards, Graham --
