Which web server?

On May 4, 10:17 pm, Yannick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hehe Thanks for the note...
>
> Thanks for the clarification... The Html loading is not slow it's fine
> BUT loading the pictures are still kind of slow even when I only
> stream them...  here is a code I have in my custom download method:
> def customDownload():
>
> response.stream(open(os.path.join(request.folder,folderName,request.args(0)) 
> ,'rb'))
>
> Is there any others techniques available in Web2py that can help me
> speed the Pictures loading process ?
>
> Any ideas please let me know.
>
> Thanks...
>
> On May 4, 9:29 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > show -> slow.
>
> > Note to self: do not type in the dark.
>
> > On May 4, 8:16 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > You need to understand why it is show. It is show to load the age or  
> > > to load the pictures (because there are lots of the m in the page)?  
> > > caching the select only affect the time to download the html page but  
> > > does not affect the pictures since you are caching the list of  
> > > function names not not the actual pictures.
>
> > > I suspect that the problem is that the system is doing database access  
> > > for each picture (that is what download() does), in order to check  
> > > whether the user is allowed to view the picture. If you do not need to  
> > > validate each picture, you can write your own download function that  
> > > does not perform validation and only does streaming or (better) you  
> > > can ask web2py to bypass web2py and serve images directly.
>
> > > On May 4, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Yannick wrote:
>
> > > > Hello mate,
>
> > > > I used a lot of pictures in my application. Currently what I'm doing
> > > > is I cache the DAL Select like this:
> > > > "db(....).select(db.photo.fileupload, db.photo.id, cache=(cache.ram,
> > > > 3600))"
>
> > > > And when the users upload new pictures, in the "onaccept" function I
> > > > clear the cache like this:
> > > > -  cache.ram.clear()
> > > > So that the cache will be refreshed when the user load back the
> > > > pictures again.
>
> > > > - First, I want to know if it is a good approach ?
> > > > - Second, it is a better way to improve this design to make my system
> > > > faster ? (Because it is still a bit slow)
> > > > - Third, when I do this "cache.ram.clear" it actually clear the cache
> > > > for all users sessions, how can I only clear the cache of a single
> > > > user session NOT all of them ???
>
> > > > Please let me know.
>
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Yannick P.

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