> Hi,
>
> A week or two ago, in the squid performance thread, I mentioned that I was
> looking for ways to eliminate squid from our production servers. I noted
> that we are using squid to save an expensive trip to the database to
> retrieve mostly static files. At that time I said that I planned to write
> a simple cache using shared memory that could be used with mod_perl to
> keep data around on the first tier. This weekend I finally had an
> opportunity to do just that.
>
> IPC::Cache is rather simple, considering that all the hard work is being
> done in the IPC::Shareable the Storable modules. I just added some basic
> namespace semantics and the ability to have data expire after a period of
> time. I'm planning on submitting it to CPAN, but I think it makes sense
> to make it available on this list before I do.
>
> I'd appreciate it if anyone who tries it out could send me feedback about
> whether it seems to do the trick.
>
> For now, you can get it at:
>
> http://unto.net/archives/IPC-Cache-0.01.tar.gz
>
> Apologies if that site is a little slow -- I'll move it over to our real
> servers and to CPAN in the near future.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -DeWitt
Two suggestions:
- Make it compatible with Apache::Session.
- Try using IPC::MM rather than IPC::Shareable. It may be faster, if you
don't need to store complex datatypes.
