On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:46:47PM -0500, Mike Heins wrote: > Quoting Jeff Dafoe (suppressed): > > Hello, > > > > I have noticed that, on my system, most of the load is generated by > > product scans. It seems to be the IO issue created when dozens of people > > hit the first page of the search results at once and the system has to scan > > the products and write the resultant match list out to the session > > directory. I suspect it is the writing of the results that creates the > > highest load, as write operations are typically much slower than read > > operations. When pondering this, I realized that all of my users are doing > > the same searches (via the category_vertical links) but each search is > > resulting in redundant scans and writes. I think there may be some > > opportunity for caching here. I am thinking it might be possible to create > > one copy of the results that were returned for a given search instead of > > each user having their own copy. This global result list could be updated > > at certain intervals, much like the timed-build tag. > > This is assuming I haven't missed some way to cache results page that > > currently exists, which is not impossible. > > [timed-build ...] with an embedded search-region would be the way to > go. > > [timed-build file="timed/cat.[cgi name=cat filter=filesafe]" minutes=60] > > [search-region arg=" > sf=category > se=[cgi cat] > "] > > ... > > [/search-region] > [/timed-build] > Bear in mind that one does not have to do this inside IC but can use an external daemon/process of whatever sort to rebuild these caches on a periodic (or otherwise) basis. It doesn't even have to be on the same machine. There are COUNTLESS opportunities to cache or pre-cook data in ic. -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher suppressed MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/ Content/site management, online commerce, internet integration, Debian linux _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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