Darren Whitlen wrote: > Hi, > I have a PHP script that reads and updates either a small file or a > mysql database. This script is called from several places every .5 seconds. assuming your using a real OS .... whilst your figuring out an even better way to do it you might consider sticking the small file in question in /dev/shm (again assuming that your OS has tmpfs) so that your file is actually stored in RAM rather than on disk. a cron job every so often can ensure you have a reasonably up2date copy of the file lying around in case you need it. > > I would like to move this file to a variable for extra speed as the file > is causing a few problems being accessed so many times. > Is it possible to have a writeable variable that has the scope of EVERY > script that is run through the parser? > > Thanks, > Darren > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
