[erlang-questions] [ANN] misultin v0.7

[Bob Ippolito]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:
> On 04/10/2011 07:35 PM, Max Lapshin wrote:
>>>
>>> I disagree. Mochiweb is slower because of design issues, not because it
>>> has more functionality. Most of the functionality in mochiweb that
>>
>> You are speaking about stability and use blocking, unstable technique
>> of listening and reading sockets:
>>
>> https://github.com/extend/cowboy/blob/master/src/cowboy_acceptor.erl#L34
>>
>>
>> I advise to read this:
>>
>> http://www.trapexit.org/Building_a_Non-blocking_TCP_server_using_OTP_principles
>
> An acceptor process only accepts, it can be killed and restarted
> without any fear of losing anything, which is why their supervisor
> uses brutal_kill in the child spec. The listened socket is controlled
> by a different process which makes killing acceptors a complete
> non-issue.
>
> Nothing in your link indicates that blocking is unstable. I have an
> application that's been up and running for many months that hasn't had
> any issue with blocking. No crash has occured on this part of the code
> or in the VM so far, and it's not running heartbeat either.
>
> Note that all the erlang http servers I've looked at so far use blocking.

mochiweb does accept in multiple processes in order to minimize
latency. After doing this I found that our worst case times got
better, but we were only able to observe this effect in production and
did not try too hard to reproduce it with a synthetic benchmark.

-bob