Huafeng Lu wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> Jia Ni wrote: >>> I don't mean there can't be 2 pen process in the system. >>> I mean pen can't be used on ftp, according to my comprehension. >>> >>> Back to you question, I can configure 'pen' on port 80 for http >>> request. Meanwhile, I can configure it on port 8080 for http request. >>> Again, I can configure it on port 8888 for http request at the same time. >>> >>> I don't know how to deal with such situation according to your >>> assumption. Should I add pen:http, pen:http8080, pen:http8888? >> Yes that is exactly what I was suggesting. > > I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. Providing multiple SMF > instances for many http ports looks really funny to me. (Yes 8080 and > 8888 are common for http; with the pen command line options it's easy to > configure, but providing a SMF instance for each port doesn't seem > graceful to me.)
That is the whole point of SMF instances. What you get from this is the ability to have different people control the difference instances and for them to be managed independently. For example if the 8080 service needs to come down for maintenance the 80 and 8888 versions stay running if they are separate instances, if you put them all in one instance you disrupt all three. This is a known and well understood use of SMF that applies perfectly to this case. -- Darren J Moffat
