Thomas Eibner writes: > Shouldn't Linux cache the file in memory anyway? Serve the file of a > ram drive? Yes. And the web server should use sendfile(). > any special considerations to keep in mind hardware wise? was thinking > some fast drives, in raid10, and that CPU wouldnt really matter all that > much. am i off? Disk bandwidth isn't the issue here. It's memory. IDE disks are fine for this application. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list