On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Newsmirror wrote:

> The reason Rob initiated this thread was based on a discussion Rob and I had some
> days ago about how to further kill off the remaining bottleneck in a Scope-like
> client/server filter process, which is spawning the client. Having a ~5kb client
> binary in the middle might not be big deal performancewise if run once every 5 min,
> but on a heavily loaded XMail server loading it every other second 24-7 makes it a
> bottleneck in the long run, thus the idea came up it would be nice to make the rather
> trivial client code part the XMail codebase somehow.
>
> I think such an addition falls beyond your famous <5 line directive
> (don't recall the exact phrase you use ;), so we discussed to co-op on
> making an experimental patch to the codebase implementing an inline socket feature.
> I figure this is the route to go for now. If it turns out and and turns out well,
> we might even be able to get you to reconsider.

Pls benchmark before talking. A thin client written in C is so fast that
its execution time literally vanish compared to the execution time of your
filter. I had something like this that I was using to load an SMTP server
for benchmark testing and it was capable of 600000 runs per hour on a
PIII 900MHz.




- Davide

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