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From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: scalable web apps
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:58:53 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrni4r1kd.e23.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442805.67917.qm@web111502.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-26 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-24  7:49 Joel Reymont
2010-07-24  8:57 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-07-24 10:55 ` [Caml-list] " William Le Ferrand
2010-07-25 13:52 ` Dario Teixeira
2010-07-25 19:19   ` Joel Reymont
2010-07-26  7:29   ` Török Edwin
2010-07-26  7:59     ` Jérémie Dimino
2010-07-26  8:19       ` Török Edwin
2010-07-27  6:46         ` Jérémie Dimino
2010-07-26 11:27       ` Dario Teixeira
2010-07-26 19:57       ` Jake Donham
2010-07-26 20:02         ` Török Edwin
2010-07-27  6:55         ` Jérémie Dimino
2010-07-26  9:11   ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-07-26 11:10     ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2010-07-26 12:58       ` Sylvain Le Gall [this message]
2010-07-26 13:20         ` William Le Ferrand
2010-07-25 19:46 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2010-07-25 21:45   ` Dario Teixeira
2010-07-25 21:56     ` Joel Reymont
2010-07-25 22:03       ` Gabriel Kerneis
2010-07-25 22:24       ` Dario Teixeira
2010-07-26  7:34       ` Richard Jones
2010-07-26 11:20         ` Dario Teixeira
2010-07-26 16:50           ` Florent Monnier
2010-07-26 17:10             ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-07-26 17:21               ` [Caml-list] " Gabriel Kerneis
2010-07-26 17:37                 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-07-25 22:44     ` [Caml-list] " Yoann Padioleau
2010-07-26  9:08       ` Sylvain Le Gall

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