On Wed 16 Sep 2009, Igor Chudov wrote: > >> I have very little static content. Even images are generated. My > >> site generates images of math formulae such as (x-1)/(x+1) on the > >> fly., > > > > I can understand generating them on the fly for flexibility > > reasons, but I'd cache them, and serve them statically after that, > > rather than regenerate the images on every single request. You can > > accomplish that in the app itself, or just by throwing a caching > > proxy in front of it (maybe you're already doing this with perlbal) > > I actually do cache generated pictures, I store them in a database > table called 'bincache'. This way I do not have to compute and draw > every image on the fly. If I have a picture in bincache, I serve it, > and if I do not, I generate it and save it. That saves some CPU, but > makes mysql work harder.
I'd go for Apache's mod_cache + mod_disk_cache. The only thing you have to do is to set cache control headers. Mod_cache is really fast b/c it skips almost all of the http request cycle. And in your case it takes load from the database. The request won't even hit mod_perl. Torsten -- Need professional mod_perl support? Just hire me: torsten.foert...@gmx.net
