On Saturday, September 29, 2001, at 03:59 AM, Jim Wilcoxson wrote:
> if returning data to the user could go through a single-thread,
> multi-connection select loop if it would overflow the socket output
> buffer. Then an expensive TCL thread wouldn't be tied up waiting for
> a 300 baud modem to drain the server's response. (Another reason why
> more threads need to be configured and it's hard to tune.)
AOLserver 2.3.3 had this -- it was called select-loop serving. It was
taken out because it didn't use the other processors in a multiprocessor
machine; the threads do a better job of that.
