Interesting! Thanks for the tips. I'll look in to it. But it does sound like I will not need it. Thanks. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: jslive@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joshua > Slive > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:04 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Caching Images > > > On 12/20/05, Michael Avila <Michael.Avila.1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The idea is to have the images be cached (even in memory if > possible) so that it is super fast as I am running this on my PC > that I use for other things. And I only have 1 GB of memory. > > > > It is my understanding from reading posts that mod_cache relies > on the expire statement. Images will not have that so I was > wondering how to cache only them. This is a phpBB forum with > oscommerce. Oscommerce more than phpBB has images. > > mod_cache will also cache based on Last-Modified headers, which all > static files will have. But you can also add expires headers with > mod_expires. > > But really, caching static images in this way is going to save you > very very little. Assuming your OS has an efficient sendfile syscall, > it will already be implicitly caching and doing zero-copy network > sends on frequently-used files. Putting mod_cache in front of that > will not make a noticable difference unless you are trying to fill an > extremely big network pipe. > > You can also look at mod_file_cache > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_file_cache.html > But you should really test this under load, because depending on the > details of your setup, ordinary sendfile-based serving could be > faster. > > Joshua. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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