Joachim Draeger wrote:
The thread per connection model simply doesn't scale to the level that
would be needed for a decent IMAP server.
Why? There are reasons to limit the maximal number of simultaneously
running threads. But what are the drawbacks of having one thread per
connection?
I think that many of the answers you are looking for are better
described in papers found here:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/proj/seda/#papers
IMAP is a perfect case for SEDA because often there are a lot of idle
collection and without SEDA you need to keep idle threads allocated.
Stefano
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