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
next prev parent 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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