On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 08:09 +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > I should not have mentioned that the customers are slow as well. > Currently our main concern is that our processes have to wait for > several data sources, then compute the answer and that our valuable > memory is wasted during the wait.
That problem is typically solved by a queue and some sort of "working..." page that reloads until done. The multiplexing approach being discussed here could work too, but you'd have to write multiplexing client code for all of these data sources as well as the server code. - Perrin