Re: Don't know if this is a sily question...
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 50753
interpreted = N
texte = Alex McCombie wrote: > Include files are awesome. They are one of our most used tags..but they come > with a price... Overhead. Instead of accessing the HD once to get a page of > code to be executed, the file access in turn leads to another access and > another.1) Include files are, I believe, cached by WebCatalog, just as templates are; I've had problems when developing where I had to flush the server to change the contents of an include file.2) If you have enough RAM on your server, the O/S should cache commonly used files (e.g. through the use of mmap) so even if #1 were not true, 500 accesses of a single include file should not lead to 500 disk i/o's.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Alex McCombie wrote: > Include files are awesome. They are one of our most used tags..but they come > with a price... Overhead. Instead of accessing the HD once to get a page of > code to be executed, the file access in turn leads to another access and > another.1) Include files are, I believe, cached by WebCatalog, just as templates are; I've had problems when developing where I had to flush the server to change the contents of an include file.2) If you have enough RAM on your server, the O/S should cache commonly used files (e.g. through the use of mmap) so even if #1 were not true, 500 accesses of a single include file should not lead to 500 disk i/o's.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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