21 messages in org.apache.httpd.devRe: Is async the answer
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Akins, Brian18 Jan 2008 10:52 
Justin Erenkrantz18 Jan 2008 11:16 
Colm MacCarthaigh18 Jan 2008 11:20 
Akins, Brian18 Jan 2008 11:27 
Akins, Brian18 Jan 2008 11:31 
Colm MacCarthaigh18 Jan 2008 12:07 
Akins, Brian18 Jan 2008 13:17 
Colm MacCarthaigh18 Jan 2008 13:29 
Ruediger Pluem18 Jan 2008 14:30 
Justin Erenkrantz18 Jan 2008 16:33 
Niklas Edmundsson19 Jan 2008 03:53 
Graham Leggett19 Jan 2008 04:45 
Davi Arnaut19 Jan 2008 06:57 
Jim Jagielski19 Jan 2008 07:04 
Graham Leggett19 Jan 2008 08:02 
Henrik Nordström19 Jan 2008 13:14 
Henrik Nordström19 Jan 2008 13:19 
Davi Arnaut19 Jan 2008 15:29 
Graham Leggett20 Jan 2008 07:44 
Akins, Brian22 Jan 2008 10:03 
Akins, Brian22 Jan 2008 10:08 
Subject:Re: Is async the answer
From:Akins, Brian (Bria@turner.com)
Date:01/18/2008 11:27:07 AM
List:org.apache.httpd.dev

On 1/18/08 2:16 PM, "Justin Erenkrantz" <jus@erenkrantz.com> wrote:

Speaking for myself, I think writing and using buckets with serf is more straightforward than our complicated bucket brigade system with mixed push/pull paradigms.

It very well may be.

Async may be easy. Except when my db connection blocks.. On stat calls.. Etc.

I am by no means defending the buckets! Or anything for that matter... Just some observations. I just no longer buy into the idea that async is somehow inherently superior. It sounds good in theory, but in the "real world" I am just not seeing it.

The whole reason I brought this up was to stimulate discussion. I really really would hate for us to spend many months porting everything over to async to discover that it made no positive impact on performance. Worse, it made extending httpd (or "D") much harder.