Re: Integrating Images on a website. Don't want to use Apache or WAFileLibrary.

> Philippe Marschall wrote:
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> >
> > >  Swazoo is actually able to come very close to Apache, able to serving
> > > static content with 300Mbits/s on VW, that is 3 times saturation of 100M
> > > Ethernet. This is enough throughput for all except really large websites
> out
> > > there. And of course, you can always switch to Apache or something
> similar
> > > later!
> > >
> >
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> > But even in this case Swazoo will eat CPU cycles from Seaside because
> > VW (like Squeak) is single threaded.
> >
>
>  Yes, but minimally comparing to Seaside and also not on the same time.

> So, if you serve only one user, this is not an issue.
> Even if you serve many users from the same image, you still eat much more
> CPU by dynamic page generation with Seaside that static serving by Swazoo.
> That's at least my judgment from experiences with Swazoo and Aida/Web on VW,
> which should be similar to Seaside case in that respect.
>
>  JAnko
>
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> >
> > Cheers
> > Philippe
> >
> >
> > >  Start therefore with Swazoo as pure Smalltalk web server with all pros
> of
> > > being in Smalltalk only, and when needed, switch to Apache. Any you'll
> see,
> > > you won't need that switch soon!
> > >
> > >  Swazoo vs. Apache benchmark:
> > >  http://www.swazoo.org/benchmarks/swazoo-vs-apache.html
> > >
> > >  JAnko
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >  From the very beginning you can use all the cpu cicles used for
> Seaside
> > > >
> > > for your app and not for serving images (that you can't cache in the
> image
> > > as you can in a webserver for faster response, ideally, without disk
> access,
> > > all served from memory)
> > >
> > > > Miguel Cobá
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Torsten Bergmann <astares@...
> > > >
> > > <mailto:astares@...>> wrote:
> > >
> > > >   Hi,
> > > >
> > > >   in general there are three ways:
> > > >
> > > >    1. serve files using an external server/location (Apache)
> > > >    2. create a WAFileLibrary
> > > >    3. let the Squeak webserver serve files from hard disk
> > > >
> > > >   1. is not good for portability, 2. bloats the image - so 3. may be
> your
> > > >   option to choose.
> > > >   You can do this either with an WAExternalFileLibrary implementation
> > > >   as Holger already explained or by serving the files directly using a
> > > >   file serving module for KomHttpServer:
> > > >
> > > >   For an example either have a look at "Webserver-tbn.4.mcz" in
> > > >   "www.squeaksource.com/DeveloperWorkspace
> > > >   <http://www.squeaksource.com/DeveloperWorkspace>" or read
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> http://www.shaffer-consulting.com/david/Seaside/GettingSoftware/index.html
> > >
> > > >   Bye
> > > >   Torsten
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