> In the context of the current state of the mem cache, yes, I do > consider that a bad idea. The mem cache is not well tested. And in > addition, on systems with good buffer caches, the disk cache will be > able to share one memory/buffer cached object across all threads and > processes and use zero-copy IO (sendfile) to deliver it to the > network.
OK. So I will try more carefully the disk module. My production platform will be Linux with 2.6 kernel. I hope that Linux kernel buffer caches are able to manage properly objects with such big size. >> I'm preparing a patch to correct the mem module bug, and writing a new >> cache module based on shared memory. >> Do you think that such new module will be useful for the community ? > Possibly. You'd need to show that it actually outperformed the disk > cache in some scenarios. It's a topic you should definitely bring up > on the dev list rather than here. I plan now to perform some benchmarks before to continue my development. Thanks a lot for your help, Joshua. Best regards, Fred
