On 20-abr-09, at 10:08, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote: > 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.
I'd like to retract my earlier statement. There's currently a bug in Samba that causes many problems when using Cherokee to serve files of a CIFS mount: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4527 (The most worrying thing is that the bug was reported on 2007-04..) -- Octality http://www.octality.com/ _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
