2010/7/26 Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>

On 26-07-2010, Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I am creating an application with ocsigen that requires to serve a lot
>> of .tar.gz as static contents.
>>
>> Do you think the "no Unix supports non-blocking mode" will cause problem
>> in this case?
>
> I presume that application is related to the Oasis-DB initiative, right?

You guess right ;-)

> I wouldn't worry too much in that case. First, because the Ocaml community
> is not that big (yet) as to cause such heavy traffic. Second, because
> the set of tar.gz files is not that great (a few hundred, max?) and those
> files will tend to be small. If your server has enough memory, there's a
> good chance many of the file blocks requested will eventually be buffered
> in memory by the kernel, thus minimising expensive disc I/O.
>

There is indeed a good chance that the files end up in memory.

Thank you for your remarks.

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall

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