Re: [Webware-discuss] Threads and sessions

[Chuck E. <ec...@mi...>]

At 08:24 PM 6/13/00 -0400, Geoff Talvola wrote:
>Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
>
> > I'd also like to open another topic for discussion: threads and sessions.
> >
> > Right now the appserver creates and destroys a thread for every request
> > that comes in. I have this idea that instead of doing that, it could have
> > one thread per session. When a request maps to a particular session, we
> > simply use that thread which would process it's requests sequentially, 
> FIFO.
> >
> > Would this have better performance?
> >
> > Would this improve safety/stability in the case where a single user does
> > something in 2-3 browser windows, resulting in simultaneous requests? I do
> > that all the time. :-)  Think about the requests updating session vars, 
> etc.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > -Chuck
> >
>
>What if a request takes a long time, and the user gets bored and clicks on
>something else instead? I do THAT all the time :-) Does that mean they have to
>wait patiently while the original request grinds away, even if the new request
>would have been quick?
>
>--
>
>
>- Geoff Talvola
>   Parlance Corporation
>   gtalvola@NameConnector.com


That's a good one! I'll have to think some more on this.

-Chuck