On Apr 6, 2007, at 4:58 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote:
Although that sounds reasonable, when I've tried to test it my results have been the opposite -- storage speed really matters and locking doesn't matter much at all. I did some benchmarking of various cache modules for a talk I gave at OSCON in 2002. At the time, I found that the number of HTTP processes trying to write to the cache didn't change the overall performance picture, i.e. the ones that used the fastest storage mechanisms clearly won both in read-only and write-heavy situtations. It might be because the locks are held for shorter periods of time, or that the number of mod_perl processes competing for locks is not all that high, or possibly just a lame test, but I couldn't get the locking to register as significant. Massive grain of salt not included.
Honestly -- I'd trust your tests over mine on any given day.On my tests I showed nearly no difference -- but I was guaging db call heavy pages. .003 vs .0003 seconds made no real difference outside a margin of error when the avg page execution was around .03.
i'm not hitting any performance bottlenecks right now, so I just use memcached+pg failover for everything. it takes 2 minutes to code , scales, and works well enough.
I'm helping a friend build a social bookmarking site this weekend - I might give bdb a try for some sessions , because the machine its going on isn't clustered like the rest i have.
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