On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:37 AM, S.A.<qmt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> > > > Hello, >> > > > >> > > > We have a requirement of serving fixed set of data >> > > elements (text, images, >> > > > audio, video, etc) to a group of users >> coming at about >> > > the same time, but >> > > > each user requesting different set of data >> elements >> > > from the given data set. >> > > > >> > > > Data set is fixed, but what data elements >> are >> > > presented to a user is dependent >> > > > on user's configuration parameters and they >> vary from >> > > user to user. Other >> > > > than the requesting data elements of a given >> set, >> > > there is nothing that >> > > > is common among users and hence their >> requests can be >> > > treated as such, ie >> > > > as independent requests. >> > > > >> > > > What is the best way to deal with the above >> scenario >> > > so that the each >> > > > httpd process does not goto to either file >> store or db >> > > for each user >> > > > request? >> > > > >> > > > Is there a way that we can retain this data >> in-memory >> > > and depending on >> > > > the requesting user, we read their >> configuration and >> > > then come to the >> > > > in-memory data set and build a page for the >> user and >> > > serve the user? >> > > > >> > > > Appreciate any insights or pointers. >> > > > >> > > > Thanks >> > > > S.A. >> > > > >> > > >> > > http://www.danga.com/memcached/ >> > > >> > > You dont mention what language/mechanism you want >> to pull >> > > the data out; >> > > memcached has client libraries for almost every >> language >> > > under the sun, >> > > so it should be appropriate. >> > > >> > > Cheers >> > > >> > > Tom >> > >> > Hi Tom, >> > >> > I am using LAMP and additionally a regular ext3 file >> store >> > and an ldap. Most of the data is in mysql and in file >> store >> > and it is this I would like to cache and serve via php >> pages. >> > >> > I will checkout memcached. Thanks for the pointer. Is >> there >> > anything native to apache itself? >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > >> >> No, but that is almost certainly by design. Caching works >> best the more >> you can scale it. Anything inside apache would be >> per-process, or at >> best, per-machine. Using memcached allows you to scale out >> your cache to >> support many backend machines. >> >> The best way to use memcached is to avoid DB queries. You >> can either >> cache your objects, so you don't need to do DB queries to >> load them, or >> cache the resultant html you would draw from the objects, >> so you don't >> even need the objects. >> >> If you can cache entire pages, apache has mod_cache and its >> various sub types. >> >> Cheers >> >> Tom > > As I have stated before, I have common data element set, > but the individual user request needs to be serviced > by dynamically generating the html page using some of > the date elements from the common set. I could not > possibly cache html pages as they vary from user to > user and even requests from the same user changes from > request to request. > > Much of the data is in multi-media form on the file store > and this is what I would like to have cached and accessed > without having to goto disk for each request. In addition > there is some data in mysql tables and which needs to be > updated. > > I would like to cache the file store which is read-only, > but I am hesitant to cache mysql data as much of it is > dynamic and needs several updates with each request. > > Thanks > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
> As I have stated before Don't get snippy, you're asking for free technical consulting on a matter that's not even really pertinent to this mailing list I think you'll have to describe your application more precisely if you want more advice, particularly this last sentence: > I would like to cache the file store which is read-only, > but I am hesitant to cache mysql data as much of it is > dynamic and needs several updates with each request. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
