[thelist] mod_perl and 700k+ files...

[Morbus Iff]

Hey there, wondering if anyone could help me with this.

I'm relatively new to mod_perl... I've got a 700k file that is loaded each 
time I run a CGI script, so I'm hoping to cache the file using mod_perl 
somehow. The file will change occasionally (maybe once a week) - the reload 
of a few seconds isn't worrisome, but it has to be done without restarting 
the server.

Any suggestions on exactly the best way to do this? I've going to:

  - PerlSetupEnv Off
  - PerlModule and PerlRequre
  - Remove buffering.
  - Cache from XML::Simple **

** The 700k file is an XML file, read in by XML::Simple. XML::Simple can 
cache that file into memory. Is this how I should do it? Or should I load 
the file from my startup.pl script so that the file is shared amongst all 
the apache children? If that's the case, how would I dynamically reload it?



Morbus Iff
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