On Dec 10, 1:35 pm, Justin Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It is talking about the fastcgi socket connection between web server
> > and fastcgi process, nothing to do with user HTTP client.
>
> Ahh, ok, that makes sense.  Good to have a real expert on this stuff
> around -- thanks Graham!

I just bullshit and people are stupid enough to believe me. ;-)

> -Justin
>
> On Dec 9, 6:47 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Dec 10, 6:05 am, Justin Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > This is a good point -- why is that the default setting?  From flup
> > > code:
>
> > > 946  Set multiplexed to True if you want to handle multiple requests
> > > 947 per connection. Some FastCGI backends (namely mod_fastcgi) don't
> > > 948 multiplex requests at all, so by default this is off (which saves
> > > 949 on thread creation/locking overhead). If threads aren't available,
> > > 950 this keyword is ignored; it's not possible to multiplex requests
> > > 951 at all.
>
> > > A quick test with a lighttpd server shows a significant (40%) increase
> > > with this turned off.
>
> > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I'm reading this is that
> > > it would handle multiple requests per client connection.  This is
> > > probably not a common occurrence for most web apps since static
> > > content is usually served outside of fastcgi code path.
>
> > It is talking about the fastcgi socket connection between web server
> > and fastcgi process, nothing to do with user HTTP client.
>
> > Technically, two distinct users could make requests at the same time
> > and requests for those two users could be multiplexed across same
> > socket connection between web server and fastcgi process.
>
> > In practice, few if any main stream web server modules for fastcgi
> > support this, so there is no good reason to have it enabled.
>
> > FWIW, Apache/mod_wsgi does not multiplex across the socket connection
> > between the web server processes and its daemon mode processes either.
> > The extra complexity in the code is just not worth it and is likely
> > not to be as efficient.
>
> > Overall, the only gain from multiplexing, if things even did support
> > it, would be keeping down the number of system file descriptors in
> > use. This is probably only going to be relevant to large scale shared
> > web hosting operations and not your average self managed site.
>
> > Although it will help in the area of use of file descriptors, it does
> > risk causing latency problems and reduced performance due to
> > additional complexity of code to handle it plus the fact you are
> > stuffing more data down a single socket pipe. Depending on how the
> > fastcgi protocol is implemented, one user HTTP client blocking on
> > reading response could possibly even technically block all clients for
> > which data is being multiplexed over the same socket from fastcgi
> > process. This is because it isn't going to be realistic for web server
> > process to buffer up data for one of the sessions just so it can keep
> > passing back data from another. Whether this hypothesis is true I
> > don't know though as have never looked at code for a web server that
> > tries to implement multiplexing.
>
> > Graham
>
> > > Counter arguments?
>
> > > On Dec 7, 3:31 am, s7v7nislands <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > hi,all!
> > > >     any server support fastcgi 'mulitplexing', that allows a single
> > > > client-server connection to be simultaneously shared by multiple
> > > > requests? after google, I find apache,nginx,lighttpd all not support
> > > > it.and test with nginx, seem when mulitiplexed = False is faster than
> > > > True.
> > > >     def runfcgi(func, addr=('localhost', 8000)):
> > > >     """Runs a WSGI function as a FastCGI server."""
> > > >     import flup.server.fcgi as flups
> > > >     return flups.WSGIServer(func, multiplexed=True,
> > > > bindAddress=addr).run()
>
> > > >     so why set this value 'True'?  thanks!

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