Greetings,

I sought an answer in the archives, but did not find anything quite right. Could mean my searching stinks. :)

I'm working through a web/backend code set that has been dormant for a few years, mainly migrating from mod_perl 1 to 2, but also looking at some other cleanup.

The code has a global configuration flat file containing config data which changes rarely, but must be changeable without code changes. The configuration is shared amongst a number of CGI scripts as well as back-end daemon processes.

I'm interested in instantiating a data structure in system memory to avoid performance hits reading disk in the CGI. The data structure would need to outlast any given session, which eliminates a number of solutions.

The existing implementation uses IPC::ShareLite and a shared memory segment to accomplish persisting the data.

Is there a simpler or more elegant solution?

Thanks...

In reply to Caching File-based Config across many sessions by Whiz Kid

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