[Opensim-dev] HttpServer overview & RFC

[Dr Scofield]

Stefan Andersson wrote:
> To me it sounds like 'Handled' is the flush-and-end helper function to 
> 'Detached'?
kind of, yes.
>
> I guess the best example is the "long poll" of the LL http polling 
> queue, where every request is specified to be 'held' for a time 
> interval, so that the server can add events over a time.
yep.
>  
> And, on that note : one of the problems we see and will see even more, 
> is that http requests that are taken from the thread pool helps to 
> exhaust the pool.
>  
> If we had some declarative way of stating 'this handler has the 
> potential to be long running' meaning it will get a new thread 
> allocated, that would probably be a good idea.
>  
> (Or the http handler has an internal private thread pool)
that was the idea behind the OSHttpRequestPumps: allocate a fixed 
(configurable) number of pumps that take care of this.

what we could also do: long poll handler spawns new thread, hands in 
OSHttpRequest, and returns Detached to OSHttpRequestPump. thread keeps 
dealing with that client.

    cheers,
    dr scofield

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