Re: mod_perl shared memory with MM

[Perrin Harkins]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> For all of you trying to share session information efficently my 
> IPC::FsSharevars module might be the right thing. I wrote it after 
> having considered all the other solutions. It uses the file system 
> directly (no BDB/etc. overhead) and provides sophisticated locking 
> (even different variables from the same session can be written at the 
> same time).

Sounds very interesting.  Does it use a multi-file approach like
File::Cache?  Have you actually benchmarked it against BerkeleyDB?  It's
hard to beat BDB because it uses a shared memory buffer, but theoretically
the file system buffer could do it since that's managed by the kernel.

- Perrin