In a posting titled InnoDB vs MyISAM vs Falcon benchmarks – part 1, their primary goal was to benchmark the new Falcon storage engine against MyISAM and InnoDB. Of course, the by-product is that we also have benchmarks for MyISAM vs. InnoDB. The results they present should make anybody think twice about which storage engine to use in their next project.
The Apache web server can use up a pretty large chunk of RAM. The last thing you need in a high traffic situation is to start swapping. One way to avoid swapping is to make sure Apache is utilizing the smallest amount of memory possible. One quick and easy way to accomplish this is to stop loading unnecessary modules.
Over the past day I've been going through a few web applications and preparing them in the event they get digged or slashdotted. One of my primary goals was to cache as much data to disk, rather than hitting the database for it each time. Now, most of the web applications I have written myself, so I didn't have the luxury of some type of premade mod or plugin. In one case, this textpattern installation, I did have that luxury.
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