Instead of dealing with uninvited trouble with NFS or anything similar, using something like http://www.danga.com/memcached/ would be a better idea.
Thanks, Pratik On 10/21/05, Jay Buffington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even if you are in a multiple server environment you should still be > able to use Cache::FastMmap. You'll just have to make sure that the > global param share_file is a file that would be shared to all servers > (perhaps over an NFS mount). > > Jay > > On 10/9/05, Pratik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unless you are running the application in multiple server environment, > > http://search.cpan.org/~robm/Cache-FastMmap-1.09/ would be the best > > choice. But probably you should read up on AJAX as well. It looks like > > AJAX can help you accomplish what you are trying to do here. > > > > Thanks, > > Pratik > > > > On 10/7/05, Foo Ji-Haw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have a simple need where a process can take minutes to complete. But I > > > want to display some progress bar of sorts to the user. > > > > > > My idea is to have the handler call the local url which does the heavy > > > lifting. Something like this: > > > http://localhost/job/dojob => launches => > > > http://localhost/job/actualjobworker > > > > > > > > > The local url will set some global hash to say that it is still working on > > > the job. The original handler (/job/dojob) becomes a polling script to > > > check > > > on the global hash to see if the work is completed. > > > > > > I read from the wiki that it is possible to have a 'global' variable where > > > all process can read/write to it. Can someone point me in the direction? I > > > tried perl.apache.org but can't find anything there. A url should do the > > > trick. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > > http://www.rails.info - Coming Soon ! > > > -- http://www.rails.info - Coming Soon !
