Re: How's your shared server doing?

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:43:48 -0400, NetComrade wrote:

I don't follow your thoughts that they 'just hand off requests'.

As far as I can tell, the dispatcher needs to
- communicate with the listener about it's availability;

• catch the requests for several connections;
• monitor the request queue for space availability;
• put stuff from it's own memory into the request queue;
• monitor it's response queue for response from the shared server;
• respond to the originator of that specific request;
• coordinate all the requests it's handling.

(Plus ... I can see a bunch more to-dos as well.)

While not neccessarily difficult, it seems to me that the dispatcher is doing a fair bit of wait-n-see work, while also managing a lot of internal lists.

Depending on the number of circuits per dispatcher, I could see it getting very, very busy doing 'a lot of not much'.

It's like a grocery store check-out clerk ... not necessarily a lot of work or particularily tough work, but constant and no breaks.

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