Hello Chris -
I would suggest doing some experiments with Fork, and LogMicroseconds (requires Time::HiRes from CPAN), to see exactly what happens. Otherwise, as you say, we are waiting for production-grade multi-threading in Perl (someday ....). regards Hugh On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:25, Chris Myers wrote: > Generally speaking our authentication method is > really quick, so it would be a performance hamper > if we forked for every request. It's just these > 'rare' cases that mess us around - ie. kerberos > server decides to take 2 minutes to return for > some unknown reason. > > But squid is not multi-threaded either, though > it can handle a *large* amount of concurrent > requests - nor does it fork. > > Hugh Irvine wrote: > > Hello Chris - > > > > No - Radiator is single-threaded at this time. > > > > BTW - why don't you want to use "Fork"? > > > > regards > > > > Hugh > > > > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:06, Chris Myers wrote: > > > Hugh, > > > > > > I'm wondering if Radiator can handle simultaneous requests > > > without forking, in the same way that squid does. (i.e. > > > one process - no multithreading). I know that it has been > > > mentioned before on the list that the best way to do this > > > was with multithreading but perl multithreading is non- > > > production. Can this be done with a select loop? > > > > > > My problem is that if a request starts to block for an > > > unexpected amount of time I would like to be able to > > > handle other incoming requests. Naturally loadbalancing > > > can minimize this problem but it does not solve it. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Chris > > > > -- > > Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server > > anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X. > > - > > Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible, > > flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence. -- Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X. - Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible, flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence. === Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
