On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:24:24PM -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Paul wrote:
> > > I was pointed to IPC::Sharable, IPC::Sharelite.
> > > I'll look at those.
> >
> > Take a look at IPC::MM for a shared memory hash implemented in C. Also,
> > File::Cache is sometimes faster than the IPC modules. I don't think any
> > of these solve problems like sharing sockets and file handles though.
>
> Why doesn't the BerkeleyDB module get mentioned whenever this topic comes up?
>
> I think it should.
Yes, it should. I stopped bringing it up because of the problems I
mentioned last time: weak documentation, tricky to install on Red Hat, and
some corruption issues under heavy load. However, after switching to
database-level locking it's been rock solid for us, so that seems to fix
the most serious problem.
- Perrin
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