[hunchentoot-devel] 'max-threads' behavior for Hunchentoot

[Hans Hübner]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 21:38, Scott McKay <swm at itasoftware.com> wrote:
> In the file index.xml, I presume?

Yes please.

> Sure, no problem.  Just don't ask me to document all the
> stuff that was already in the code, but not yet documented!  :-)

Surely not.  Just document the new feature.

Thank you!
-Hans

>
> On Jun 7, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Hans Hübner wrote:
>
>> Scott,
>>
>> thank you for the patch.  May I ask you to add a documentation update?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hans
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 21:14, Scott McKay <swm at itasoftware.com> wrote:
>>> Hans, I've attached a file with the diffs against
>>> (what I believe is) the latest version of Hunchentoot.
>>> This does what we discussed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 5, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Hans Hübner wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 15:01, Scott McKay <swm at itasoftware.com> wrote:
>>>>> Right now, the default for 'one-thread-per-request-taskmaster'
>>>>> (or whatever it's called) is what it used to be: just keep
>>>>> accepting connections.  If you'd like me to change that to
>>>>> "accept N connections and spin off a thread; queue up a few
>>>>> more connections; then issue HTTP 503", that would suit me
>>>>> just fine.  It seems like a good, default behavior.  The one
>>>>> question I have is, what should N be and what should the
>>>>> increment be beyond which we reject?  I'm thinking something
>>>>> like allow 8 threads, and 2-4 on the queue, but I'll go with
>>>>> whatever you think is reasonable.
>>>>
>>>> The default limit for threads needs to be much larger than 8 as -
>>>> correct me if I'm wrong - there is one thread per connection, not per
>>>> request.   This means that the number of threads allowed is basically
>>>> identical to the number of simultaneous clients.  Lets set the default
>>>> limit to 100 so that Hunchentoot is not the first thing one needs to
>>>> tune when coping with larger loads.  The listener queue length should
>>>> not be too short (something like 30-50) so that load transients can be
>>>> handled.
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy your weekend,
>>>> Hans
>>>>
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