Daemon-like object

[natmweiss]

I've got PHP 4.3.11 compiled as a dynamic object loaded into Apache 1.3.33 with turck-mmcache 2.4.6.

Every time somebody hits a page on my website a PHP script will load about 10 megs worth of dynamic data. What I would love to do is create some sort of daemon-like object which could load that 10 megs worth of data and stay alive. Then each PHP script could query and update that daemon-object. What is the best way to go about this?

Create a real daemon with a PHP extension that communicates with it?

Is it possible to create a PHP extension or Apache module which loads only once and manages the data?

[Weedpacket]

Couldn't you put that data into a database? Then you've got the DBMS doing the daemon thang and you've got an API so the script only needs to read the bits it needs when it needs them.

[natmweiss]

The whole website is a custom database. Sort of a combination between a multi-dimensional and a network database.

Down the road it might be best to go with some DBMS. For now there is little time to rework the existing codebase.

Any clues down the daemon road?