Re: [discuss] Speed question

[bruce]

Dear Heath and Steve,
Thanks Heath, I will try and test today. Monay is always busy but will try.

Also wrt dying processes.. dying unix processes never disappear
quickly. They are not actively taken out of the mix unless resources
are not released. Usually removed at idle time or thereabouts.
Bottom line is on exit... forget.
You can see numbers of terminated processes on a high load system.
A terminated daemon will have absolutely no effect on the system beyond
occupying a process slot and there is an argument that cleaning all those
up while the system is busy will slow you down anyway!!

This is a unix pov!!!

Cheers,
Bruce

>> I notice the number of daemons gets fairly large (right now it's 36,
>> with
>> nothing going on net-wise). Should they go back to zero? (5 minutes
>> after I
>> wrote that, it's still 36.)
>
>Yes, they should. Something is probably not right there. NTLM does rely
>on persistant connections, but they should still be closed eventually.
>As Bruce suggest, they most likely will not do any harm - Unix systems
>are quite good at handling lots of background processes. But I'd
>definately feel better if they died a fair bit more quickly than that.

Re: [discuss] Speed question

[Heath Raftery]

Bruce, Steve, others,
On 18/09/2004, at 3:29 PM, bruce wrote:
I don't mind testing 3.1.1a against a real windoze system that works 
with
the current version of authoxy... if you want to... Won't be until 
Monday
now...
Sure, that'd be very handy before I release an official version. I'll 
send it in a private email.

PS Heath, do you test against Samba?
Indeed I do!
On 19/09/2004, at 5:53 AM, Steven Stratford wrote:
I was so curious to find out if 3.1.1a works that I drove in to work 
(all of
5 minutes from where I live) to try it.

It works! You're my hero, Heath. :)
Awesome! That makes it all worthwhile :)
Maxibidder...partly, probably it's their program, not Authoxy.
RealOne player--nope.
MSN Messenger--nope.
Skype (VOIP)--nope.
Yeah, bugger about that. I honestly don't think there's much I can do 
about that. I've tried to work through MSN issues before, but it is 
doing strange things I think. You might like to try experimenting with 
turning the proxy option on or off, or electing to not use HTTP ports 
or something. Also, as you say, these might well be specifically 
blocked at the firewall anyway.

I notice the number of daemons gets fairly large (right now it's 36, 
with
nothing going on net-wise). Should they go back to zero? (5 minutes 
after I
wrote that, it's still 36.)
Yes, they should. Something is probably not right there. NTLM does rely 
on persistant connections, but they should still be closed eventually. 
As Bruce suggest, they most likely will not do any harm - Unix systems 
are quite good at handling lots of background processes. But I'd 
definately feel better if they died a fair bit more quickly than that. 
The behaviour in the latest log you posted definately looks normal 
though - there appear to be two NTLM connections, one after the other. 
In the first one, the server closes the connection, and in the second 
the client closes it, with the whole thing only lasting a few seconds. 
That's quite normal. The only thing Authoxy does after printing those 
messages is to kill the partner process (connections are handled by 
pairs of processes) and then kill itself. Not sure why then, your 
processes are not dying. I'll sleep on it...

Regards,
Heath
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