On 20-abr-09, at 06:33, pub crawler wrote: > As such, was thinking about doing the following to utilize the IOCache > of Cherokee: > > 1. Map a network share from Ubuntu (via Samba) to Windows server which > runs our website. > 2. Create a new website profile in Cherokee to handle the > images.website.com > 3. Enable IOCache for the JPG, GIF and PNG files. > > Is anyone doing this or similar thing with Cherokee currently? We are > running a Gbit link between the Cherokee box and the webserver, so I > expect things to be somewhat slower than in the same machine, but once > cached by Cherokee, it should fly. Basically want to get the load off > of Windows, use the speed and ever increasing features of Cherokee to > serve such and utilize caching of Cherokee so we aren't obliterating > the drives all day getting the same files from disk over and over. > > Is this a an alright idea? Anyone doing anything remotely similar?
I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't work. However, as you know, the more complexity the more odds to fail. My advice: try to keep it simple. Does the images change often? If not so, a periodic rsync could keep an updated copy of the images in the web server - which would speed things up. BTW, independently of which option to end up implementing, it's important to tweak I/O-cache if you are looking for performance. The configuration options are located in the "Advanced" section of Cherokee-Admin. It allows you to define how many file may be cached. -- Octality http://www.octality.com/ _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
