Re: HTTP Mod_Perl mini-server

[David Hodgkinson]

Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> egads, don't do it... Web servers are well developed for this kind of
> thing, and modern filesystems (e.g. ext2fs) will buffer the ads in RAM
> anyway if you have enough. You're not likely to get any speed increase
> doing it this way. If you're that concerned about perhaps the weight of
> Apache + mod_perl, consider trying TUX or thttpd, or something else
> lightweight written in C.

Dare I add that Squid has plenty of low-latency cacheing features you
could use? 

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