(RADIATOR) Simultaneous Request handling

[Chris Myers]

Generally speaking our authentication method is
really quick, so it would be a performance hamper
if we forked for every request.  It's just these
'rare' cases that mess us around - ie. kerberos
server decides to take 2 minutes to return for
some unknown reason.

But squid is not multi-threaded either, though
it can handle a *large* amount of concurrent
requests - nor does it fork.

Hugh Irvine wrote:
> 
> Hello Chris -
> 
> No - Radiator is single-threaded at this time.
> 
> BTW - why don't you want to use "Fork"?
> 
> regards
> 
> Hugh
> 
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:06, Chris Myers wrote:
> > Hugh,
> >
> > I'm wondering if Radiator can handle simultaneous requests
> > without forking, in the same way that squid does. (i.e.
> > one process - no multithreading).  I know that it has been
> > mentioned before on the list that the best way to do this
> > was with multithreading but perl multithreading is non-
> > production.  Can this be done with a select loop?
> >
> > My problem is that if a request starts to block for an
> > unexpected amount of time I would like to be able to
> > handle other incoming requests.  Naturally loadbalancing
> > can minimize this problem but it does not solve it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris
> 
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