Re: [naviserver-devel] “worker process pool” feature?

2023-09-05 Thread Gustaf Neumann
On 05.09.23 14:40, John at Decent wrote: Gustav, I think my confusion is as to how this works. As it's not documented, one needs to figure it out from the source. the man page https://naviserver.sourceforge.io/n/nsproxy/files/ns_proxy.html is not a perfect documentation, but this is what we

Re: [naviserver-devel] “worker process pool” feature?

2023-09-05 Thread John at Decent
Gustav, I think my confusion is as to how this works. As it's not documented, one needs to figure it out from the source. I can't really tell what each ns_proxy::exec does if the executed process doesn't exit.  Does it reuse it for the next request? It seems so, but I'm not clear.  If it does

Re: [naviserver-devel] “worker process pool” feature?

2023-09-05 Thread Gustaf Neumann
On 05.09.23 11:39, Gustaf Neumann wrote: On 05.09.23 09:17, John at Decent wrote: However, won’t that cause the external process to get reloaded every time I call proxy::exec ? see https://github.com/openacs/openacs-core/blob/oacs-5-10/packages/acs-tcl/tcl/proxy-procs.tcl#L74-L83 in the li

Re: [naviserver-devel] “worker process pool” feature?

2023-09-05 Thread Gustaf Neumann
On 05.09.23 09:17, John at Decent wrote: Thanks Gustaf. I knew about ns_proxy, but as it is documented as being a proxy to external Tcl processes, I didn’t think to use it as a general process pool. The part I was missing was > proxy::exec However, won’t that cause the external process to

Re: [naviserver-devel] “worker process pool” feature?

2023-09-05 Thread John at Decent
I'm currently looking into bringing FastCGI support to Naviserver. In principle, FastCGI is specified to support a pool of backends. For your case, one would have to implement a FastCGI server, maybe directly in undroidwish, which does the marshaling to the respective Tcl scripts.  Would this su

Re: [naviserver-devel] “worker process pool” feature?

2023-09-05 Thread Georg Lehner
Hello, I'm currently looking into bringing FastCGI support to Naviserver. In principle, FastCGI is specified to support a pool of backends. For your case, one would have to implement a FastCGI server, maybe directly in undroidwish, which does the marshaling to the respective Tcl scripts.  Wou

Re: [naviserver-devel] “worker process pool” feature?

2023-09-05 Thread John at Decent
Thanks Gustaf.  I knew about ns_proxy, but as it is documented as being a proxy to external Tcl processes, I didn’t think to use it as a general process pool. The part I was missing was > proxy::exec  However, won’t that cause the external process to get reloaded every time I call proxy::exec