Two unrelated questions... The project for which I am considering NS will have a dynamic and very large static part. There will be many very large (650MB) static files that people will download. It is hard for me to judge what the performance of serving these files with NS will be. Of course benchmarking would be the ideal route, however I have the pleasure of writing the code now, and the hardware for this project won't be purchased until a while from now. Should I use NS for the dynamic part and redirect the static requests to something like lighttpd, or can I rely on NS to handle such load without problems?
Does there exist a caching mechanism for dynamically generated tcl/adp pages? If it does, where can I find docs for how it works/when the cache is invalidated? Does a mechanism exist to "reload" the tcl libraries on a live server? (please pardon all the questions, I'm just trying to get up to speed with what's in there)
