> > pperl is pre-forking. > > Yes, but SelectServer isn't. SelectServer doesn't fork at all.
> > It doesn't fork on every connection. The forking on every connection is > > part of what causes some of the overhead. > > Do you have evidence that that is the case? Fork should be inexpensive, > and it's certainly not a problem with tcpserver. tcpserver is designed to fork and exec lightweight C programs. forking larger programs (i.e. perl) can be an issue. And there is definitely overhead to forking. > > But in general, I think this is a good idea, at least to see how it > > works :) > I'll let you know if I get something working. Please be sure to let me > know if you beat me to it :-) It won't happen this month. You don't have to worry. > > Net::Daemon can do preforking too. > It can, but is latency critical enough for it to be an issue? Yes. -R
