On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:06:20PM -0700, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> IPC::Cache has worked like a champ for me on a heavily loaded webserver.
> It's simple and (I'm lead to believe) it's a compiled module. You interact
> with it like a hash file, but if you're clever you can work it out for your
> usage without semaphores. It also behaves itself very nicely (no memory
> leaks that I have run into).
Hi, I'm the author of IPC::Cache and frankly, I'm a little surprised
it's worked so well for you. :) I've noticed some performance issues
with it. The good news, however, is that Sam Tregar, author of
IPC::SharedCache, and I have been working on a major upgrade. In the
next release, IPC::Cache will be back-ended against IPC::SharedCache
module. It will now scale and perform much better.
The other alternative is to use File::Cache (also available on CPAN).
File::Cache actually has better performance characteristics than
IPC::Cache. Since switching between the two usually entails simply
replacing the string "IPC::Cache" with "File::Cache" it may be worth
checking out.
I could use a few beta testers of the new IPC::Cache module. If
anyone wants to help, please let me know.
-DeWitt
