On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:56:21 +0100, Kinkie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Amos Jeffries <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Henrik Nordstrom wrote: >>> >>> tor 2009-11-26 klockan 17:35 +1300 skrev Amos Jeffries: >>>> >>>> I'm making the helper children configurable for on-demand startup so a >>>> minimal set can be started and allowed to grow up to a max as >>>> determined by >>>> traffic load. >>>> Growth is triggered by helpers dying or requests needing to be queued >>>> when all helpers are full. >>> >>> Drawback is that this fork can be quite expensive on larger squids, and >>> then momentarily stops all forwarding under peak load. But overloaded >>> helpers is generally worse so.. >>> >>> Ideally the concurrent protocol should be used as much as possible, >>> avoiding this.. >> >> Yes, when Kinkies muxer is ready this and that can combine to a very >> powerful boost for the helpers. > > How do you suggest to proceed to get it ready? Code review? tests? Other? > I'm frankly quite at the end of ideas.. I've bundled two fake > authenticators to emulate something that crashes and something that > delays. Haven't tried NTLM or digest honestly..
If it works to the best of your knowledge then its time for code review and testing in HEAD. Amos
