On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:15:09AM -0700, Ian Holsman wrote: > On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 07:08:47 -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 02:30:26AM -0700, Greg Stein wrote: >... > >> I generally agree that it is an advanced concept and possibly able to > >> relegate to the app, but I also think that many apps will want multiple > >> connections and multiple outstanding requests. Thus, a pool of > >> connections. > > > > Something to be built upon our base library. > > true, > the pool would allow you to perform low-latency requests to a application > server, by creating the connection and re-using it over and over, instead > of creating/tearing-down the connection for every request.
That is an aspect of persistent connections, and is unrelated to pools of connections. >... > you could program the pool so that it has multiple servers it talks to > for load balancing, where a client may issue multiple 'gets' to the same > 'pool' and they may be served from multiple machines/ports, invisible to > the calling program Absolutely! I think this is pretty much a given. See my post about this stuff. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
