Web caching

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

Randall Hofland wrote:
> 
> My curiousity is piqued: can one use a RAMdisk to run a dedicated Apache
> cache assuming the memory is available or is it just best to use the fastest
> disk possible, perhaps a mirrored RAID set?

If you had a server that only served up a small amount of content, you
could indeed put it in a RAMdisk. After all, a RAMdisk is just like any
other disk, so far as applications are concerned.

If you had more content than you could reasonably put in a RAMdisk,
though, you're back to letting the OS cache things, or implementing a
cache in Apache.
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