I've found my old code, and its rather ugly and not very portable.  So I'd
rather start from scratch.  I've learnt a better way of parsing
multi-delimited strings now anyway, so I'll whip something up.


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Dustin <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Mar 16, 5:05 pm, Clint Webb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Actually that is a good point.  I hadn't thought of that.  I have some
> > services that I wrote a long time ago that take a -o options setting,
> which
> > is for those odd options that are rarely used, but occassionaly needed
> for
> > fine-tuning...
> >
> > so I would have something like:
> >   webservice -v -a 127.0.0.1 -p 14077 -o
> > "pre-fetch=1,fetch-fail-delay=15,lib-preload=0"
> >
> > If you're interested I could dig out the old code that does this... or
> might
> > not be difficult to start from scratch.   That might be a good way of
> > handling these kinds of rarely used settings.
>
>   -o isn't taken yet, but that could be good.  There are a few other
> hard-coded values I've found in there that might be interesting to
> adjust on a really rare base (e.g. how deep to walk the LRU when
> looking for something eligible to evict).
>
>  I don't know that it's *urgent* now.  I like the idea that rarely-
> used tweakability can be added, though.
>



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