In article <199507212304.TAA23595@hapeville.cc.gatech.edu> James Pitkow writes: > >Further more, the generation of unique ids on the server side means >that some shared memory is used, which means locking, which means >blocking. This can only serve to decrease the throughput of servers >(what's the point of issuing unique ids if you turn away half of the users >away?). Additional resources (computational and memory) are consumed >by the management of ids and their recycling. > No, for a preforked server each preforked process uses its id plus a counter which it increments for each request. For a threaded or forking server there is only one counter which is incremented before forking. >If a client generates an id, the server simply logs this to file which means locking, which means blocking... ;) -- John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University john@math.nwu.eduReceived on Friday, 21 July 1995 22:06:13 GMT
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