Hi all, Thanks for the advice, I shall research your suggestions!
Kind regards, Ben -----Original Message----- From: Perrin Harkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 September 2006 15:56 To: Frank Wiles Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: Re: mod_perl using IPC::ShareLite Frank Wiles wrote: > 3. Use can also use a simple config file with something like > Config::General. Your crons can update this data onto disk > and your mod_perl apps can simply read it in as a config file, > maybe using a short 5 minute cache to reduce disk reads. This is what I would recommend. Update this file from the cron, read it into global variables (so they will be persistent) in mod_perl once every 5 minutes. (And note that this means every process will read them every 5 minutes, not some kind of shared memory thing.) Personally, I would use a database for this specific case, but I've used this config file approach for data that I wanted to be easy to edit by hand. - Perrin
