On 2 February 2011 13:43, Andrew Rodland <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 08:06:08 PM Toby Corkindale wrote: >> How do you find Plack at serving static files (via Middleware::Static >> / App::Static)? Compared to Static::Simple, and compared to native >> HTTPD. I guess it sits in between the two in terms of performance, but >> wondered how much of an improvement it was? >> > All of them will give perfectly acceptable throughput -- even Static::Simple > isn't *slow*. The real concern is that with Static::Simple or with > Plack::App::File, you're tying up one of your webapp processes to serve the > file -- and your webapp processes are usually fairly limited in number, and > fairly memory-hungry (which prevents you from just making more). On the other > hand, if you let the frontend httpd serve the file, the cost of serving a > static file ranges from one lightweight httpd thread (for a threaded model) to > nearly nothing at all (with an async model). Either way, it's not tying up a > process that could be running Catalyst. > > If you're serving up a fairly small number of fairly small files, then this > probably doesn't make any difference to you, but if you're serving a larger > number of larger files (that will take several seconds or more to transfer) > then you should probably be thinking about ways to do it outside of your > webapp process.
Which neatly loops around to my original post! :D My suggestion being to continue to use Static::Simple, but with cache-related headers added so that the reverse-proxy in front of Starman will cache-and-serve them itself. It's simple, and IMHO, ends up as the fastest, most light-weight way to serve those static files too. -T -- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart; the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
