Re: vhosts conf file efficiency

[Noel Butler <noel.butler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 22:10 -0500, Sean Conner wrote:

> > 
> > So its going to open, read and close 2000 files, rather than open, read
> > and close one file, that may or may not be noticeable at
> > startup/reloads, if I was a betting man, I'd say noticeable.
>
>   Nope.  I just ran a program [1] that opened and read 25,018 files in 2.5
> seconds [2].  I'd bet unnoticeable.


Bored, so I tried it, only on a lightly used server (408 hosts) wrote quick 'n dirty perl  to split them into individuals and into a test dir

firstly in normal state....

time ./rc.httpd start
Starting Apache... Done.

real	0m0.336s
user	0m0.252s
sys	0m0.040s

Now edited httpd.conf to exclude vhosts.conf but include  conf/test/*.conf

time ./rc.httpd start
Starting Apache... Done.

real	0m1.087s
user	0m0.284s
sys	0m0.040s


so half a second more reading 400 odd individual files, so over 2000 it would take a few seconds more, in nit picking, yes it would be worse off, if you can call 3 or so seconds more, worse off

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