[TYPO3-dev] Testing TYPO3 caching vs. [FE][pageCacheToExternalFiles]

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Bernhard,

On 4/11/06, Bernhard Kraft <kraftb at kraftb.at> wrote:

> But then I made stress tests using the "ab" tools supplied with apache and noticed that the
> fully-file-cached version was even slower than the DB-version .... no clue why.

Because several apache child processes reading the same files are
going to work slower than several child processes talking to mysql
daemon child processes that deliver the data. MySQL in this case works
as a 2nd level cache over the filesystem, and whatever time you gained
by getting rid of mysql_connect's is eaten up either by the filesystem
code or by the TYPO3/PHP code that reads the files.

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Dimitri Tarassenko