[WinMac] File locking with IIS

Matt Cooney(matt[at]pacific.co.nz)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:12:35 -0500

The MacWindows web site recently linked to a Microsoft technote that
describes a
registry hack to stop IIS locking files for a minute or so after they have been
served. This is good news for those of us writing dynamic pages (ASP, Cold
Fusion, PHP, whatever) on NT from a Mac, since SFM is affected; it's very
frustrating having to wait 60 seconds each time you need to fix a typo.

     http://www.macwindows.com/servtips.html#072699
     http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/7/42.asp

The technote warns, however, that disabling caching will "seriously" affect
server performance. Uh.

Is there anybody savvy with NT who would like to share:

     * the likely performance impact on a server with an unremarkable load, less
than 10,000 hits/day.
     * whether this registry edit is a Bad Idea for any other reason.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Matt

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