Why not store the key/value pairs in memcache? This works like charm and using
Nginx' memc and eval modules you can retrieve the IP addresses from the cache
instantly.



On Tuesday 09 March 2010 12:12:06 ramprasad_ap wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am new to nginx , I am using ngnix as a Load balancer for two imap
> servers. All machines are RHEL5 64 bit
>
> The nginx calls an apache php script that determines if the user is on
> imap1 or imap2 by looking up a plain text file. which contains entries
> like
>
> $user['user1'] = 10.1.1.1;
> $user['user2'] = 10.1.1.2;
> ----
> $user=10.1.1.1;
>
>
>
>
>
> For 15k users this method becomes very heavy. There are too many httpd
> processes running that suck the resources on the machine.
>
> Is there a way I can load the userlist into memory in apache
> Thanks
> Ram
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,61798,61798#msg-61798
>
>
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