Web caching

[david at kramer.ne.mediaone.net (David Kramer)]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Ron Peterson wrote:

> I'm curious.  Does Apache cache static web content in memory?  I.E. - if
> I request a static page, does Apache store that page in memory for some
> period of time, in case someone else asks for it?  Or does Apache fetch
> the page from disk each and every time?  If it is cached, then for how
> long?  Is there a cache timeout parameter?
<SNIP>
> I'm putting together some web stuff w/ lots of little pieces being
> included into larger pieces, being included into larger pieces yet. 
> This makes the coding easier, of course, but I'm wondering how this
> affects performance disk-access wise.  Not that performance for what I'm
> doing right now is really an issue, but I'd like to know anyway.

Well, if your box has enough memory, and the files are hit often enough
for it to matter, the files will most likely be coming from your disk
cache anyway.

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