On 01/18/2008 10:29 PM, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:17:16PM -0500, Akins, Brian wrote: >> For dynamic stuff, "X-sendfile" works well. (Just really starting to play >> with that, liking it so far). > > It's not a solve-all though, I mean even though CGI's or whatever > /could/ write their output to a file and then call X-sendfile, it'd be a > disaster latency-wise. Ironically enough the only way to solve that is > ... async ;-) > >> The proxy that the LiveJournal folks wrote, I think, copies all the data >> from the origin server into a file and then uses sendfile to send to the >> client... > > Erm, so does the one we wrote, mod_disk_cache ;p
IMHO it doesn't for the first request of the entity (the request that causes the entity to be cached) Regards Rüdiger
