Memcached vs. static pages

[Adam Zell]

For zero-copy I/O: http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpCoreModule#sendfile
For serving static content:
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpGzipStaticModule

Note that sendfile won't help if utilizing HTTPS.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Philip Murray <pmurray at open2view.com> wrote:

> On 4/03/2009, at 4:47 PM, Daniel Rhoden wrote:
>
>  Hopefully this is a simple question to answer.  Is there any performance
>> benefit of going to the trouble of setting up memcached for static pages?  I
>> guess the question is, does nginx have its own form of storing frequently
>> requested static resources, or does it read from the hard drive each time is
>> serves those requests?
>>
>> My gut tells me nginx has something already built in to optimize requests
>> for static pages without the complexity of memcached.
>>
>
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Nginx (to my knowledge) doesn't have such a facility, nor does it need one.
> The VM system of the operating system you're using will cache oft accessed
> data in memory, thus it won't always be read from disk.
>
> So you're experiencing high disk IO with just static pages, the best thing
> you can do in the short term is add more memory (which Memcache would need
> otherwise anyway)
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil
>
>


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