thread pool and requests queueing

[Eugene Grosbein]

On 11.04.2014 18:31, Alan DeKok wrote:

>> How can I force radiusd to use some idle thread at once to minimize queueing delay?
> 
>   Step one is to fix your threading issue.  DO NOT have the threads
> block for 2 seconds.  It is a terrible, terrible, design.  It is
> destroying the server.

Why does it destroy the server? I can have any large number
of lightweight threads to compensate for busyness of sleeping threads.

I use FreeBSD having sysctl kern.threads.max_threads_per_proc=1500
by default and may increase it to arbitrary high value.

>   As for the idle thread issue, I have no idea.  All I know is that it
> works for me.  Maybe something you're doing is breaking the server.

I'll try to dig this problem deeper then.