[naviserver-devel] threads and stability

[John B. <jo...@ma...>]

Hello navifans,

I'm in the process of trying to move to Naviserver from Aolserver.  

I'm finding that naviserver is not launching new threads, and is just qeueing requests up to be handled by a single thread, despite maxthreads being set high.

I can get around that problem if I change
   ns_section 	"ns/server/${servername}"
   ns_param   	minthreads      	1
to
   ns_section 	"ns/server/${servername}"
   ns_param   	minthreads      	100

and then the server *does* use multiple threads.  That shouldn't be needed, though.

Is there a config parameter I need to twiddle to enable one-demand thread creation?

I also have the following two other problems:
1) if I try a minthreads of 50 or larger, nsd crashes on startup
2) apachebench with a concurrency of 50 causes nsd to crash (at 20 threads)

I'm running debian squeeze, with a number of production aolservers that run stably also on the same box.

Any thoughts?

-john