Re: [naviserver-devel] Questions about NS details... (scalability, lib changes)

[Mike <nee...@gm...>]

On 7/12/06, Vlad Seryakov <vl...@cr...> wrote:
> Some time ago i added writer feature to NS, when configured in nssock
> section as
> ns_param writerthreads 2
>
> NS will create 5 threads that will perform serving large files to the
> clients leaving connection threads to do dynamic parts. Those writer
> threads are serving multiple connections at the same time using aync IO,
> so no big overhead.

is 5 vs 2 a typo...?  Also, what constitutes "large files" in this
situation - is it the "writersize" argument, or is there something
else?  I am nor sure how "async IO" compares to sendfile(2) - can you
please comment on this?

> > Does a mechanism exist to "reload" the tcl libraries on a live server?

what I mean by this is not the cache - but the initial tcl library
loaded at server startup.  I would like to know if it's possible to
somehow reload this without shutting down the entire web server.