On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 11:34:59AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Nick Reinking wrote:
I have a much better idea to handle these files, I'll detail it shortly. But with HTTP/1.1, moving those files will pages load _slower_ for most people (since they have to do an additional DNS lookup and connect()), rather than piggybacking off an already existing HTTP/1.1 connection.
Under normal circumstances, I would agree. But the machine was just about *this far* from falling over completely, and pages were not really getting served *at all*. At least the site works for now. :-)
But I'd love to hear your suggestions, too!
Anyhow, since a new server is going to be installed this weekend, hopefully hardware will save the day... for now. :-)
Actually, I wanted to use the mod_mmap_static module that comes with Apache. This way, we can avoid stat()s or read()s to the hard disk for these files that don't change.
Unfortunately, the Apache we have in /usr/local/apache doesn't have it built in, nor does it have mod_so. Does anybody know why this is?