(RADIATOR) pooled connections

[Tariq Rashid]

i've been using radiator very happily using the perl hooks.

now i have a new task which requires the hooks to make decisions depending
on the results of LDAP and SQL lookups. of course its possible to open a
connection, do the lookups, and then release the connections. 

however this happens for each request. which is not very efficient and
drives up the load. 

i wonder if:

	* it is poosible to open a single / pool of connections during the
startup hook
	  and use it for every request postsearchhook? and close them on
shutdown/restart.

	* i also wonder if its possible to create global static variables in
the starttup
	  and refer to the in subsequent hooks, and even modify these
variables.
	  namespaces?

i think the moduule instantiations of freeradius (which appear very parallel
to objects of classes and their life-cycles) are the closest i've seen to
this

thanks

tariq rashid

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