RE: named pipes or files on disk?

will accessing a html file, that is in the memory of a daemon, load as fast/faster
when accessed by the cgi script, through sockets?, than if the file was on disk?


Jeremy


> Subject: RE: named pipes or files on disk?
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:56:55 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
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> 
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jer A
> Sent: 19 April 2010 23:54
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: named pipes or files on disk?
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > I am new to the concept of named pipes on unix/linux
> > 
> > by using 
> > use Fcntl;
> > will the named pipe transaction be faster than reading a file off the
> hd?
> > I am thinking a writing a daemon cron process, which a cgi process can
> attach to
> > and read from memory, instead of file.
> > I dont want to use mod_perl.
> 
> This smells a bit like an XY problem (see
> <http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341>), and I can't
> immediately see what Fcntl has to do with pipes, named or otherwise. It
> might help if we had more information about what you are trying to
> accomplish. In any event, you might want to consider other IPC
> mechanisms before pipes, like shared memory or sockets.
> 
> Also, bear in mind that if you are not using mod_perl, your CGI script,
> and the Perl interpreter, will be read from disk for every request.
> Unless reading that data file is time consuming for some reason (e.g. it
> is huge, or remote), speeding it up may not improve the response time
> for your HTTP request by very much.
> 
> HTH
> 
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> Brian Raven 
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