[hunchentoot-devel] Can we control the number of worker-threads/per-session?

[Hans Hübner]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:51, Stefan Scholl <stesch at no-spoon.de> wrote:
> On 2008-11-13 06:50:51, Hans Hübner wrote:
>> No, Hunchentoot currently provides for no control over the number of
>> threads that it creates.  In multi threaded mode, a new thread is
>> created for each incoming connection.  There may be limits in
>> Lispworks and/or Windows that create the apparent limitation that you
>> observe, but they are not under Hunchentoots control.
>
> As posted here 2005: SBCL can be crashed because of this.
>
> http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/tbnl-devel/2005-August/002577.html

I recommend running Hunchentoot in single threaded mode behind a
caching proxy for that reason.

-Hans