I am using external_acl extensively in my production servers, and I think it would be nice to add external_acl these flags:
o max_requests: after this number or requests, the helper will be shutdown and replaced by a new one. This is to help leaky helpers. o min_alive: to avoid short-lived helpers, they should stay alive at least for this amount of seconds. This should help against fork-query-kill per request behaviour if request rate is drastically increased. As a side note, only one helper would be replaced at a time, to avoid replacing all of them at the same time. defaults would be: max_requests = no limit min_alive = 1 Does this make sense? Regards, -- Gonzalo A. Arana
