[fpc-pascal] Standby socket servers?

[ik]

Hi,

You can create a daemon is several ways, but here are two of them:
1. Create non blocking sockets for the server, and on every new
communication open a new thread that will use that connection.
2. Create a non blocking sockets for the server, and on every new
communication open a new process that will handle that connection.

I suggest that you open things by need, rather then by demand, because
you never know how much connections you'll need, and if you'll only
need one, and you will have 10, then it's "too much" for what you
need.

Ido

On 6/2/07, Francisco Reyes <lists at stringsutils.com> wrote:
> After reading the socket samples at
> http://www.bastisoft.de/pascal/pasinet.html I am starting to get the basics
> of socket programming.
>
> The one thing I don't see in that page is how one would have standby
> servers.
>
> In other words I would like my server program to have some N number of
> daemons to handle the connection. Like one can do with apache..
>
> Have a minimun number or processes always running with the ability to grow
> as needed up to a maximun number of processes.
>
> I don't have exact numbers, but my guestimate is that during the busiest
> times of the day the program will need to handle 5 to 10 connections per
> second.


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