Fellow monks.

I was updating the way my website thinks, (and finally got it to run under strict and -w) and I got concerned about something:

    Here's how the page is servered:
  1. index.pl runs and sucks up strict, CGI, and HTML::TokeParser
  2. a list file is opened and parsed to get the files locations and the current writeups listed.
  3. the file is now known, it is opened and parsed
  4. An html template file is sucked in.
  5. another file for the forum is read to list the number of entries in the forum for the current writeup.
  6. finally, page is displayed.

is this too much opening files?

will I run myself into a wall someday for this?

Oh, and by the way, there's a CSS style sheet file that has actually a rewrite on the server to a perl file which reads a cookie and returns specific contents.

so let's say I use a similar technique on a high traffic site, will this overload the server with too much to do for a single page?

He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to Opening too many files? by Chady

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