Hi Jed,
Any update on this bug?
Just ping :)
Thanks.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 4:30 AM, Jed Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 1:04 PM, Jed Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm investigating it now. I'll let you know what I find. I've given it
>> a quick test, and the bug seems to be replicatable.
>
> What I'm seeing is that after some number of downloads,
> accept stops returning. The process doesn't seem to be
> leaking memory or file descriptors, and there isn't, as far
> as I can tell, a good reason for accept to start misbehaving.
>
> One solution is to further simplify chm_http and not spawn
> off threads to handle the requests, instead handling them
> directly. Since chm_http is mainly intended as a simple
> example, rather than a production-quality HTTP server, I'm
> tempted to take that approach, even though it completely
> serializes access to pages. (This could cause some
> trouble if you were to, say, try to download a very large
> file from a chm archive over a slow link, during which
> time no other requests could be serviced.)
>
> At any rate, on my machine, chm_http serves pages up
> at least as rapidly without spawning threads as with, and
> the problem seems to go away. This is probably what I'll
> do.
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