Thomas Eibner writes:
> Shouldn't Linux cache the file in memory anyway? Serve the file of a
> ram drive?

Yes.  And the web server should use sendfile().

> any special considerations to keep in mind hardware wise? was thinking
> some fast drives, in raid10, and that CPU wouldnt really matter all that
> much.  am i off?

Disk bandwidth isn't the issue here.  It's memory.  IDE disks are fine for
this application.

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David Phillips <david at acz.org>
http://david.acz.org/


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