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

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