need some help in serving static files inside a wsgi apps

[Matthew Woodcraft]

Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:
>Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner schrieb:
>> I guess, Apache does some kind of memory caching for files, which are often
>> requested and small enough to fit into the system memory.  May be, that's
>> what the OP is referring to ...

> I'm not aware of that, and I even more seriously doubt it. Because 
> caching is a complicated, domain-dependend subject that would 
> *immediately* cry for configuration - e.g. caching strategies and such.

This is available in current apache with mod_file_cache (for an
explicitly configured list of files). I think the circumstances where
you'd want to use it are quite rare.

-M-