What is the possibility of spawning multiple "listeners" daemon processes that handle the requests?
I have worked with many VERY large scale PKIs and thinking long term on this project, at any given time in a alrge org or other large deployment, it is VERY possible to have 5-50 people requesting certificates at once. --- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:40:44PM +0200, Michael > Bell wrote: > > I started to think about some radical ideas to > solve our performance > > problems. All actual ideas do the same - we try to > optimize the > > initialization. The simple question is why does > the initialization time > > be a problem for a server if it starts it's normal > operation after a > > while? Really simple because OpenCA is no server! > So what about a real > > OpenCA server? > > I gather you want to keep the openca code running > all the time, so there > is no need to reinitialize it with every request? > > If so, have you considered concurrent access by lots > of clients > simultaneously? Apache has had a lot of work in this > regard. > > Also, there are two extremes. On one extreme, we can > create > an OpenCA web server thats entirely in Perl. > > On the other extreme we can create a server (or a > library) that isn't > dependant on HTTP or HTML and can be used by other > clients, eg. text > mode clients or non-web based GUI interfaces. > > Personally I am happy with the web based interface. > > Anyway, just some random thoughts. > -- > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > OpenCA-Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openca-devel ===== Kevin Blanchard President / CEO Nykon Systems ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ OpenCA-Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openca-devel
