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Date: | 2010-07-26 (09:15) |
From: | Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@l...> |
Subject: | Re: scalable web apps |
Hello, On 25-07-2010, Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com> wrote: > > The only circumstance where I would be cautious on relying solely on a > naked Ocsigen is if you are also required to serve plenty of static content > (images, etc). Even though Ocsigen includes an extension for serving static > pages, for hysterical reasons no Unix supports non-blocking mode for regular > files, which of course causes problems for Lwt-apps (see the Lwt manual for > more information on this). Therefore, in this context you may get better > results by having another server (like Nginx) dedicated to static content. > I am creating an application with ocsigen that requires to serve a lot of .tar.gz as static contents. Do you think the "no Unix supports non-blocking mode" will cause problem in this case? Regards, Sylvain Le Gall