Performance impact of 100+ SSI directives

[Hone Watson]

My personal experience is the more SSI includes you have the more
CPU's are used.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Maxim Khitrov <max at mxcrypt.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to refactor a website composed entirely of static files.
> Part of the content is a long list of scientific publication
> references (> 100), which are all listed on a common publications
> page, and also repeated on other project-specific pages.
>
> I'm considering placing each reference (1 line of text) into a
> separate file and using SSI directives to include those files as
> needed throughout the site. The reason for doing this is that the
> references are not static. The publications go through several stages
> (under review, in press, published), which are reflected in the
> references. On top of that, we occasionally need to make formatting
> changes and it's a bit problematic trying to remember all the
> different places where a reference is used.
>
> The question is how would nginx deal with more than 100 or even 200
> include directives on a single page? This setup would make my job of
> updating the references easier, but if there is a significant impact
> on the time it takes to serve the publications list, then I would
> rather write some search/replace shell scripts to handle the updates.
>
> Any other suggestions are welcome, but databases and server-side
> coding are not an option :)
>
> - Max
>
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