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

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Ries,

On 4/11/06, Ries van Twisk <typo3 at rvt.dds.nl> wrote:

> >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.
> >
> This means that you can speed up this particular situation by using a
> sharedmemory cache?
> But it will not reflect real-live performance thought...

It probably _would_ help in real life, but it wouldn't change the ab
test that is done on one page over and over again.

What I really would like to try is placing those cache files in
/dev/ramdisk ;)) Bernhard, if you already have the stuff set up, can
you try that? ( http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html )

--
Dimitri Tarassenko