Nick Kew wrote: > > How would you keep an index keyed on client-IP using scoreboard? > Or did you have something else in mind?
Exactly; this could not be keyed. Not without additional data and additional cross-thread+cross-proc locking semantics. If we can tolerate a 'soft limit' then simply memcmp'ing the client of scoreboard slot might be more efficient than the whole locking and db access overhead, at least for cases of ~500 clients or less. To get a hard and fast limit, locking is required.
