On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Egbert Eich wrote:
> This is a matter that maybe should also be discussed on 'forum'.
> I don't know how to initiate a joint discussion on both lists.
> There is a comment on Roland Mainz's changes to make BIGREQUEST size
> tunable.
> Further comments are welcome.
> Egbert.
> === comment by Juliusz Chroboczek
> Roland,
> The below is not an objection to your change, just an explanation.
> XFree86 does not reschedule clients within requests; all rescheduling happens at
> a request boundary. Thus, with very large requests it is possible for a client
> to lock-out other clients for noticeable amounts of time.
> The situation is even worse on the SI, where scheduling is done by counting
> requests (rather than measuring time, as is done on XFree86). There, using big
> requests can impact the server's fairness in a big way.
> If Mozilla needs big requests to function with half-decent performance, then
> Mozilla is broken and should be fixed. Including work-arounds in XFree86 is
> counter-productive in the long term.
> I would like to suggest that you should file a bug with Mozilla.
I personally don't have any objection to this change. Requests that tie
up the server for an inordinate amount of time should be dealt with in a
more generic fashion, IMO. And, perhaps, including this change would up
the pressure to deal with the more generic problem.
Marc.
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