On Nov 16, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Adam Kocoloski <kocol...@apache.org> wrote: >> On Nov 16, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> Again, I'm not sure whether it's a couchdb-dev@ or couchdb-user@ question. >>> >>> I wonder how _shows, _lists, _updates (and maybe others?) couch-side >>> code is executed. Is there a single couchjs loaded on couch start and >>> it is fed all the functions that are called thought URLs or there is a >>> separate couchjs launched for every function? >>> >>> Just want to understand what's going on with my code... >>> >>> Thank you! >> >> Hi Vlad, the reality is in between those two cases. CouchDB keeps a pool of >> couchjs processes running. > > Thanks a lot for the quick answer, Adam. > > This sounds like Apache's StartServers* right? Is there a way to > configure the pool size? > > * http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html#startservers
In fact there is no way to configure the pool size, which is a bit of a problem. A malicious user could cause a very large number of processes to be spawned. There's a comment in the source about adding a process limit, not sure if a JIRA ticket is around too. Best, Adam
