On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:06:43 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
This thread is about disk access on the temporary database server.
No matter how insanely fast the caching is, it doesn't happen on the database server. Superduperfast squid caching that doesn't touch the database server and kinda speedy php caching that doesn't touch the database server are exactly equal in the eyes of the database server.
Sorry- i misunderstood you then (i admit to have only crossread the thread). But still the latter doesn't provide a timeout and is slower overall. Switching off time checking is really quick to do of course, so why not.
I'll try to do the purge script tomorrow, then we could use the idle machines as static caches without timeout (and switch the modification time check on again).